take down the union jack chords by Billy Bragg
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Intro 1
(C major) (F major) (C major) (D minor) (C major) (G major) (D minor) (F major) (C major)
Verse 1
(C major) Take
down the Union Jack
It clashes (F major) (C major) with the sunset
And (G major) put it in the at (D minor) tic with
the (F major) emperors old clothes (C major)
When did it fall apart?
Sometime (F major) (C major) in (F major) the (C major) eighties
When the great (G major) and the good (D minor) gave way
To the (F major) greedy and the mean
(C major)
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Verse 2
(B flat major)
Britain isn't cool, you know
It's (F major) really not that (C major) great
It's (B flat major) not a proper country (F major)
It doesn't even (C major) have a patron (G major) saint
It's just an (B flat major) economic (F major) union
That's past (D flat major) its sell-by (E flat major) date
date
(G major)
Verse 3
Take (C major) down the Union Jack
It clashes (F major) (C major) with the sunset
And (G major) ask our Scottish neigh (D minor) bors
If independ (F major) ence looks any good (C major)
'Cause they just might understand
How to (F major) take an (C major) abstract notion
of (G major) personal iden (D minor) tity
And turn it (F major) into nationhood
(C major)
Verse 4
(B flat major) Is this the 19th Century
That I'm (F major) watching on TV (C major)
The (B flat major) dear old (F major) queen of England
Handing (C major) out those (G major) (B flat major) MBE s
Member of the (F major) British Empire
That doesn't (D flat major) sound too
(E flat major) good to me (G major) (A major) (F major)
Gilbert and George (G major) are taking
the piss (A minor) aren't (F major) they
Gilbert and George (G major) are taking the piss (A minor)
(F major) What could be more (G major) British than
is a (A minor) picture of me bum (F major)
Gilbert and George (G major) are taking
the piss (A major)
Verse 5
(C major) Take down the Union Jack
It (F major) clashes (C major) with the sunset
And (G major) pile up all those (D minor) history books
but (F major) don't throw them away (C major)
They just might have some clues
about (F major) what it (C major) really means
To be an anglo (G major) hyphen sax (D minor) on
in England dot (F major) Co dot you-K
(C major) To To be an anglo (G major) hyphen sax (D minor) on
in England dot Co dot you-K
you-K
take down the union jack
Billy Bragg
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