Northern Industrial Town chords by Billy Bragg

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Verse 1
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It's just a northern
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industrial town
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The front doors of the houses
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open into the street
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There's no room for front gardens
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Just a two-up, two-down
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In In In a northern industrial town

Verse 2
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And you can see the green
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hills 'cross the rooftops
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And a fresher wind blows past
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the end of our block
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In the evenings the mist
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comes rolling on down
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Into a northern industrial town

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Verse 3

And there's only two teams in this town

And you must follow one or the other

Let us win, let them lose

Not the other way round

In a northern industrial

town

Verse 4
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And the streetlights look
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pretty and bright
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From the tops of the hills
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that rise dark in the night
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If it weren't for the rain,
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you might never come down
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To your northern industrial town

Verse 5
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And on payday they tear
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the place down
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With a pint in your hand and
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a bash 'em out band
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Sure they'd dance to the rhythm
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of the rain falling down
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In a northern industrial town

Verse 6
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And there's plenty of artists around
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Painters, steal cars, poets,
nicked guitars
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'Cause we're out of the black
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and we're into the red
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So give us this day our daily bread
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In a northern industrial town

Verse 7
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But it's not Leeds or
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Manchester
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Liverpool, Sheffield nor Glasgow
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It's not Newcastle-on-Thyne
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It's It's Belfast
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It's just a northern industrial town