Billy Bragg – Wishing The Days Away (Guitar)

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Note: Verse 3 appears on the alternate take on the bonus edition of Talking With the Taxman aAbout Poetry Intro: ' ' ' '|' ' ' '|' ' ' '|' ' ' '|' C F C G C C G Verse 1:

      C 
On monday I wished it was tuesday night

           F            G          C
So I could wish for the weekend to come

   C
On tuesday I wished that the night would pass

           C        G      Am
So I could call you on the phone

      F               C
Now a man can spend a lot of time

          Am               C
Wondering what was on jack ruby's mind

    F             Em               Dm        G
And time is all I have without you here

Verse 2:

   C                  
On wednesday when you hung up

          F       G       C
It was as much as I could do

   C
To stop from wishing thursday

      C       G       Am
Would pass so quickly too

        F                C
They're out there making history

       C                 F
In the lenin shipyards today

    F                C             Am
And here I am in the hammersmith hotel

G                 C
Wishing the days away

Verse 3:

C 
Wasn't it a shock to find                 

    F        G     C    
The king was human too?

C
Still I think he understands

     C       G           Am     
Much more of me than you do.

   F              C
It seems a proper shame to steal,

    C                   F
His clothes but not his crown,

F                C           Am
Here I am in the Hammersmith hotel,

G                      C
Singing the government down

Verse 4:

        C 
There's always room for one more soul

F           G     C
Down in the human zoo

C
I don't want you to come here though

  C            G       Am
I want to come home to you

F                   C
Somebody's knocking at the door

    C            F
Its later than I think

         F                    C        Am
And it's time to put on these stinking clothes

    G                 C
And get out there and stink

Verse 5:

   C
On friday I wished there was something more

      F           G           C
To be seen in the letters you send

   C
On saturday I wished it was sunday

             C       G    Am
Oh will this torment ever end

    F             C               F
Sometimes I get a notion to put a torch

                   F
To the tools of my trade

F                C             Am
Here I am in the hammersmith hotel

G                C
Wishing the days away