Billy Bragg – Valentines Day Is Over (Guitar)
Key
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Speed:
1.0x
Chords
* 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