Billy Bragg – Valentines Day Is Over (Guitar)

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* Suggested voicing for the C-Em-Am riff that appears frequently is barre chords on the 8th, 7th, and 5th frets, respectively. [INTRO] C F | F C | F C | F G | F C | [VERSE 1]
C       F        | F                C    |
Someday boy you'll reap what you've sown

       F       C                | F       G   |
You'll catch a cold and you'll be on your own

    F        C             | F          C   |
And you will see that what's wrong with me

   F          C            | 
Is wrong with everyone that

Dm                    G              | F C |
You want to play your little games on

C          F     | F                C     |
Poetry and flowers pretty words and threats

F                  C            | F               G   | 
You've gone to the dogs again and i'm not placing bets

       F      C          | F            C     |
On you coming home tonight anything but blind

   F               C               | Dm            G    | 
If you take me for granted then you must expect to find

   F         C     |
Surprise, surprise
C Em Am * | [CHORUS]
Am               | F C | F G     | C Em Am * |
Valentine's day is over, it's over

Am               | F C | F C |
Valentine's day is over
[VERSE 2]
G            | F                | C               | C        | 
If you want to talk about it well you know where the phone is

G                | E         | F               | Fm     |
Don't come round reminding me again how brittle bone is

C                   | G   | F                   | G     
God didn't make you an angel the devil made you a man

      | C         | E            |F             | Fm        |
That brutality and economy are related now I understand

             C           | E      | F            | Fm        |
When will you realise that as above so below there is no love
F C | C Em Am * | [CHORUS]
Am               | F C | F G     | C Em Am * |
Valentine's day is over, it's over

Am               | F C | F C |
Valentine's day is over
[INSTRUMENTAL] G | F | C | C | G | E | F | Fm | [VERSE 3]
       C                      |  G     | 
For the girl with the hour glass figure

     F            | G    |
Time runs out very fast

   C              | E              | F              | Fm   |
We used to want the same things but that's all in the past

    C                  | E                      |
And lately it seems that as it all gets tougher

 F                         | Fm                        |
Your ideal of justice just becomes rougher and rougher
F C | C Em Am * | [CHORUS]
Am               | F C | F G     | C Em Am * |
Valentine's day is over, it's over

Am               | F C | F C |
Valentine's day is over
[VERSE 4]
C                 F                   | F                C |
Thank you for the things you bought me thank you for the card

F                 C                  | F               G   |
Thank you for the things you taught me when you hit me hard

     F                C            | F             C        | 
That love between two people must be based on understanding

  F                      C               |
Until that's true you'll find your things

 Dm                    G         | F         C     |
All stacked out on the landing, surprise, surprise
C Em Am * | [CHORUS]
Am               | F C | F G     | C Em Am * |
Valentine's day is over, it's over

Am               | F C      | G C      | F C  | G C
Valentine's day is over, it's over, it's over