Key: Gb major
Verse 1
D
Em
A
D
It happened in the springtime
in the year of sixty -four
Em
A
When Englishmen
were making pounds
he beat them on the bunks
Em
A
And a pair of fancy fetlocks
Because he's English, he's English,
Em
A
and in front of our door
Said that horse of yours
A
called Millhouse,
and Arkel is his name
Em
A
Put your money where
you put your mouth,
Those racing English gentlemen,
they laugh too fit to boast
Em
A
You tried before, Tom Draper,
Why, that's blarney and romance
Em
A
It's Milhouse that you're up against,
A
D
Be cause he's English, he's English,
he's English as the Queen
Em
A
A little bit of Arab stock,
throw out your chest with pride
Em
A
He's the greatest steeplechaser
Empire fed and empire fed,
Em
B
A
and English to the core
Milhouse is money on
D
B
There are other horses in the race
the rest are out of sight
throw out your chest with pride
Em
A
The greatest steeplechaser
D
Em
A
in the English countryside
he leads by twenty lengths
Fm
F
Bb
Bray Markel's putting on a show,
poor chap, he's almost spent
Eb
C
Mil house sleeps on majestically,
F
Bb
The greatest horse, undoubtedly,
in the whole world wide
he's English as the Queen
F
Bb
A little bit of Aristotle,
but more from Stephen's Green
Eb
C
Take one look at Milhouse,
Eb
Fm
Bb
in the English countryside
B
Em
It's two more fences,
But it's over by the shouting,
he hasn't got the speed
B
D
oh Lord, can he hold out?
man, what are you about?
Pat Taffer's mould in hand
D
C
He's past England's millhouse,
the finest in the land
Gm
C
F
Too early in the day
Oh yes, he's Irish, he's Irish
He's Irish as they dream
Bb
C
That little horse called Arco
F
Bb
F
C
F
Arco came in first you
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