take down the union jack

take down the union jack easy guitar chords by Billy Bragg

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  • Intro 1

    Verse 1
    Take 

    down 
    the 
    Union 
    Jack 

    It clashes 
    with 
    the sunset 

    And 
    put 
    it 
    in 
    the 
    at
    tic 
    with 

    the 
    emperors 
    old 
    clothes 

    When 
    did 
    it 
    fall 
    apart? 

    Sometime 
    in 
    the 
    eighties 

    When 
    the great 
    and 
    the good 
    gave 
    way 

    To 
    the 
    greedy 
    and 
    the mean 

    Verse 2

    Britain 
    isn't 
    cool, 
    you know 

    It's 
    really 
    not 
    that 
    great 

    It's 
    not 
    a proper 
    country 

    It 
    doesn't 
    even 
    have 
    patron 
    saint 

    It's 
    just 
    an 
    economic 
    union 

    That's 
    past 
    its 
    sell-by 
    date 

    date 

    Verse 3

    Take 
    down 
    the Union 
    Jack 

    It clashes 
    with 
    the sunset 

    And 
    ask 
    our 
    Scottish 
    neigh
    bors 

    If 
    independ
    ence 
    looks 
    any 
    good 

    'Cause 
    they 
    just 
    might 
    understand 

    How 
    to 
    take 
    an 
    abstract 
    notion 

    of 
    personal 
    iden
    tity 

    And 
    turn 
    it 
    into 
    nationhood 

    Verse 4
    Is this the 
    19th Century 

    That 
    I'm 
    watching 
    on 
    TV 

    The 
    dear 
    old 
    queen 
    of 
    England 

    Handing 
    out those 
    MBE

    Member of the 
    British 
    Empire 

    That doesn't 
    sound 
    too 

    good 
    to 
    me 

    Gilbert 
    and George 
    are taking 

    the piss 
    aren't 
    they 

    Gilbert 
    and George 
    are taking 
    the piss 

    What could 
    be 
    more 
    British 
    than 

    is 
    picture 
    of me 
    bum 

    Gilbert 
    and George 
    are taking 

    the piss 

    Verse 5
    Take down 
    the 
    Union 
    Jack 

    It 
    clashes 
    with 
    the 
    sunset 

    And 
    pile 
    up 
    all 
    those 
    history 
    books 

    but 
    don't 
    throw 
    them 
    away 

    They 
    just 
    might 
    have 
    some clues 

    about 
    what 
    it 
    really 
    means 

    To 
    be 
    an anglo 
    hyphen 
    sax
    on 

    in 
    England 
    dot 
    Co 
    dot 
    you-K 

    To 
    To 
    be 
    an anglo 
    hyphen 
    sax
    on 

    in 
    England 
    dot Co 
    dot 
    you-K 

    you-K 

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