{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1482746,"song":"Something About England","artist":"The Clash","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1482746-something-about-england-chords-by-the-clash/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1482746?type=chord","rating":4.49323,"votes":15,"content":"[tab][ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThey say immigrants steal the hubcaps[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Dm9[/ch]     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nOf the respected gentlemen  [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThey say it would be wine an' roses  [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIf England were for Englishmen again  [/tab]\r\n  \r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nWell I saw a dirty overcoat  [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAt the foot of the pillar of the road  [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G7[/ch]\r\nPropped inside was an old man   [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWhom time would not erode  [/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhen the night was snapped by sirens  [/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThose blue lights circled fast  [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nThe dancehall called for an' ambulance  [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe bars all closed up fast  [/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nMy silence gazing at the ceiling  [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWhile roaming the single room  [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nI thought the old man could help me  [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIf he could explain the gloom  [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nYou really think it's all new  [/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nYou really think about it too  [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G7[/ch]\r\nThe old man scoffed as he spoke to me  [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI'll tell you a thing or two  [/tab]\r\n\r\n  \r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI missed the fourteen-eighteen war  [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]  [ch]Em[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut not the sorrow afterwards  [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Dm[/ch]                            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWith my father dead and my mother ran off  [/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]                            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nMy brothers took the pay of hoods[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]F[/ch]  \r\nThe twenties turned the north was dead  [/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Am[/ch]  [ch]Em[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe hunger strike came marching south  [/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Dm[/ch]                            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAt the garden party not a word was said  [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]                            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe ladies lifted cake to their mouths  [/tab]\r\n  \r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe next war began and my ship sailed  [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWith battle orders writ in red  [/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nIn five long years of bullets and shells  [/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWe left tem million dead [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch] \r\nThe few returned to old Piccadily  [/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWe limped around Leicster Square  [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nThe world was busy rebuilding itself  [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe architects could not care  [/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut how could we know when I was young  [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAll the canges that were to come?  [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G7[/ch]\r\nAll the photos in the wallets on the battlefield  [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] \r\nAnd now the terror of the scientific sun  [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nThere was masters an' servants an' servants an' dogs  [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThey taught you how to touch your cap  [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G7[/ch]\r\nBut through strikes an' famine an' war an' peace  [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nEngland never closed this gap  [/tab]\r\n  \r\n\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]F[/ch]\r\nSo leave me now the moon is up  [/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut remember all the tales I tell  [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Dm[/ch]                             [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe memories that you have dredged up  [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAre on letters forwarded from hell  [/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]C[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch]   [ch]G7[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n  \r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe streets were by now deserted  [/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThe gangs had trudged off home  [/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Dm[/ch]                             [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe lights clicked off in the bedsits  [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAn' old England was all alone [/tab]","plain_text":"C   Am   G7   Am","chords":["C","F","Dm9","Am","D","G7","Em","Dm","G"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]},"G7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[3,2,0,0,0,1],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,1]}}}