Key: Db major
Verse 1
Rosemary Topping
And the moors were cold and green
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C
be no stopping
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Em
An d in the borough,
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Em
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G
Sleeping safe and still
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Em
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C
When Ghafoor Hussein hit the road
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With a million mouths to fill
Here's beans and rice
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G
And a hand when you fall
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Em
For there's a friendly face,
He couldn't bear the lads
and the lasses' faces
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C
On the TV screens
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Em
F
with beans and rice and tea
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Em
And on a winter's morning
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he headed south
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and crossed over the sea
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F
It's beans and rice and rice an d beans
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F
For there's a friendly face, a better place
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and a future for us all
Now in Dunkirk, we remember yet,
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F
800 ships we'll not forget,
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that came to lend a hand.
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But here comes one more vessel now,
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G
across the angry sea.
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To serve 3 ,000 meals a day
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and 10 ,000 cups of tea.
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G
And a hand when you fall
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F
For there's a friendly face, a better place
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And a future for us all
Now some have stared into his face
And wondered if he's mad
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But he knows he'd be in their place
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If it weren't for the chance he had
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are what drives him on
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So waste a gaffer and his bus
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and a better world to come
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For there's a friendly face, a better place
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and a future for us all
Well the mist was lifting
And the moors were cold and green
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Em
And the driver swore there'd
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be no stopping
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Em
An d in the borough,
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Em
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G
Sleeping safe and still
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Em
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C
When Ka 'af or Hussein hit the road
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with a million miles to fill
Here's beans and rice and rice
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Em
G
and a hand when you fall
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Em
For there's a friendly face,
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a better place
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It's beans and rice and rice an d beans,
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Em
and a hand when you fall.
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Em
For there's a friendly face,
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a better place,
For there's a friendly face,
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C
a better place,
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Dm
and a future for us all.
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