take down the union jack

take down the union jack easy guitar chords by Billy Bragg

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    4
  • Eb

    6
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  • Intro 1
    C
    F
    C
    Dm
    C
    G
    Dm
    F
    C

    Verse 1
    C

    Take

    down the Union Jack
    F
    C

    It clashes with the sunset
    G
    Dm

    And put it in the attic with
    F
    C

    the emperors old clothes

    When did it fall apart?
    F
    C
    F
    C

    Sometime in the eighties
    G
    Dm

    When the great and the good gave way
    F

    To the greedy and the mean
    C
    Verse 2
    Bb


    Britain isn't cool, you know
    F
    C

    It's really not that great
    Bb
    F

    It's not a proper country
    C
    G

    It doesn't even have a patron saint
    Bb
    F

    It's just an economic union
    Db
    Eb

    That's past its sell-by date

    date
    G
    Verse 3

    C

    Take down the Union Jack
    F
    C

    It clashes with the sunset
    G
    Dm

    And ask our Scottish neighbors
    F
    C

    If independence looks any good

    'Cause they just might understand
    F
    C

    How to take an abstract notion
    G
    Dm

    of personal identity
    F

    And turn it into nationhood
    C
    Verse 4
    Bb

    Is this the 19th Century
    F
    C

    That I'm watching on TV
    Bb
    F

    The dear old queen of England
    C
    G
    Bb

    Handing out those MBE s
    F

    Member of the British Empire
    Db

    That doesn't sound too
    Eb
    G
    A
    F

    good to me
    G

    Gilbert and George are taking
    Am
    F

    the piss aren't they
    G
    Am

    Gilbert and George are taking the piss
    F
    G

    What could be more British than
    Am
    F

    is a picture of me bum
    G

    Gilbert and George are taking
    A

    the piss
    Verse 5
    C

    Take down the Union Jack
    F
    C

    It clashes with the sunset
    G
    Dm

    And pile up all those history books
    F
    C

    but don't throw them away

    They just might have some clues
    F
    C

    about what it really means
    G
    Dm

    To be an anglo hyphen saxon
    F

    in England dot Co dot you-K
    C
    G
    Dm

    To To be an anglo hyphen saxon

    in England dot Co dot you-K

    you-K

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