Aikendrum chords by Ewan MacColl

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Verse 1
Em 
B 
Em 
 (E minor)  (B major)  (E minor) Can you who a whig can fight?
D 
Em 
B 
 (D major) He can  (E minor) drum, he can  (B major) drum.
Can you who a whig can fight?
Em 
He can  (E minor) drum.
G 
Em 
He can fight the  (G major) hero  (E minor) bright
With his heels and armour light
B 
And the wind of  (B major) heavenly might.
Em 
He can drum,  (E minor) he  can drum.
B 
He's not roly and not  (B major) right.
Em 
He can  (E minor) drum.
B 
Did you hear of  (B major) Sunderland?
Em 
B 
He can  (E minor) drum, he can  (B major) drum.
Em 
B 
Did you  (E minor) hear of  (B major) Sunderland?
Em 
Akin  (E minor) drum
G 
That  (G major) man of high command
Em 
D 
Em 
 (E minor) Who had sworn to  (D major) clear the  (E minor) land
B 
He has vanished  (B major) from our strand
Em 
Akin  (E minor) drum, akin drum
B 
Are the eelists  (B major) in the sand?
Em 
B 
Em 
Akin  (E minor) drum  (B major)  (E minor) 
B 
Donald's running around  (B major) and around
Em 
D 
Akin  (E minor) drum, akin  (D major) drum
B 
Em 
B 
 (B major) Donald's  (E minor) running around  (B major) and around
Em 
Akin  (E minor) drum
G 
But the chief cannot be  (G major) found
Em 
And the  (E minor) Dutchmen, they are drowned
B 
And King Jamie he  (B major) is crowned,
Akin drum,
Em 
 (E minor) Akin drum,
B 
But the dogs will get  (B major) a stand,
Em 
Akin drum.  (E minor) 
B 
We have heard  (B major) of Whigs galore,
Akin drum,
Em 
B 
 (E minor) Ak (B major) in drum,
Em 
B 
We have heard  (E minor) of  Whigs  (B major) galore,
Em 
Ak (E minor) in drum,
G 
But we've sought  (G major) the country o 'er,
Em 
 (E minor) With cannon and claymore,
B 
And still  (B major) they are before,
Em 
Akin  (E minor) drum,
D 
Akin  (D major) drum,
Em 
B 
 (E minor) We may seek forever  (B major) more,
Em 
B 
Em 
B 
Em 
B 
 (E minor)  (B major)  (E minor)  (B major)  (E minor)  (B major) 
Em 
 (E minor) 
Geeking geeking
B 
Em 
B 
Em 
B 
Em 
B 
Can  (B major)  (E minor) you  (B major)  (E minor)  (B major)  (E minor)  (B major) 
Em 
 (E minor) 
hoot a geen up wey,
B 
Geeking drum,  (B major) geeking drum,
Em 
B 
Can you  (E minor) hoot  (B major) a geen up wey,
Em 
Geeking  (E minor) drum,
G 
Look  (G major) jolly blithe and big,
Em 
Turkey's  (E minor) in  , bless Sidon,
Craig and the poor were meetin'
B 
 (B major) Whig
Em 
Achin'  (E minor) drum, achin' drum,
B 
Em 
for opposition's  (B major) sake, you will  (E minor) win