Nerina Pallot – English (Guitar)

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Oh you love to be English

            C7
And all you think it is

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The queen and her guards taking tea

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But the hatred and the bigotry won't go away

   C7
No blacks, no Irish

                   Fmaj7
Bring no dogs, the shame

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Of being something other than the

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Same as everyone else

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Well I don't want to be like you

                  Fmaj7
But my skin is so pale

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My manners so fine

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You think that I am just like you

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And you're frightened to travel

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'Til you make the world look just the same as home

            Bm7
While your kids buy guns

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And shoot their friends and die alone

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No mind, no judgement lets you take the blame

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Send those bloody strangers back from where they

Fmaj7                   G
Came, does that mean me too?

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I'm a mother in her small red coat

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Stepping off the boat

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Doing jobs you're too damn lazy to

Fmaj7
All this greatness gone to waste

     G
Your hide your eyes and turn your face

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And nothing ever changes, no

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Nothing ever changes

    Fmaj7
So keep your bulldogs, keep your flags

     G
Coz talk is cheap and time will drag and

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Nothing ever changes, no

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Nothing ever changes

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I will always be English

            C7
And all I hope it is

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These shores I will claim as my own

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This broken-down Jerusalem,

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You're still my home