Ralph McTell – England (Guitar)

C                               F         C
What is it about you, makes me feel this way?

C                     Am
When I'm leaving you, when I'm coming home

    F                G
I'm lost for words to say.

       C
And I know your faults and failures,

          F                         C
And the troubles that you've been through.

          Bb             Dm
But it's more about what happens now

    Dm7             G
And what were coming to.

          C            F
And the echo from the green hills

         C                F
Runs through her city streets,

         Dm                F
And the sun that shines on England

         G                C
Well it lifts the heart in me.

C   F       C   F      C F Am Dm G
England, oh England

C   F       C   F    Dm F G C
England, oh England

C                          F            C
What is it about you, that took men into war?

C                   Am
Rows and rows of crosses: 

    F                  G
Who remembers why what for? 

C
The corners of these foreign fields,

F                C
The dust in them concealed.

Bb                   Dm
Out of sight but not out of mind,

Dm7                     G
Don't you know that England feels?

C                   F
And the echo from the green hills

         C                F
Runs through her city streets,

Dm              F
The rain that falls on England

G               C
Well it washes care from me.

C   F       C   F      C F Am Dm G
England, oh England

C   F       C   F    Dm F G C
England, oh England

C                       F               C
Don't make this out a battle hymn or a song of victory.

C                   Am
It's just a way to try to say 

     F               G
what England means to me.

        C
And our accents and our colours change

       F             C
From the city to the farmland

         Bb               Dm
From the moor-land to the mountain,

Dm7                 G
From the river to the sea.

C               F
And the echo from the green hills

         C                F
Runs through her city streets,

Dm              F
The rain that falls on England

G               C
Well it washes care from me.

C   F       C   F      C F Am Dm G
England, oh England

C   F       C   F    Dm F G C
England, oh England

C               F               C
From the rolling road to the winding lane,

C               Am
From the field to factory,

F               G
From summer's haze to winter's glaze,

C
And all the colours in between.

F               C
It's a stillness in the evening.

Bb              Dm
It's the heartbeat that I'm feeling.

Dm7             G
From Cornwall to Northumberland,

F               C
From the Pennines to the sea.

C               F
And the echo from the green hills

         C                F
Runs through her city streets,

Dm              F
The rain that falls on England

G               C
Well it washes care from me.

C   F       C   F      C F Am Dm G
England, oh England

C   F       C   F    Dm F G C
England, oh England