The Anglo‐Saxons chords by The Mountain Goats

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Verse 1

We'd like to dedicate this song to our friends,

the former inhabitants of the British Isles

One, two, three

Verse 2

They used to paint their bodies blue

A couple of 'em might be

Distantly related to you

According to Caesar

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Verse 3

They shaved their entire bodies

Except for the upper lip

And the head

Yeah, the Anglo- Saxons

Verse 4
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A subliterate bunch of guys
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Though some sources say otherwise
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Yeah, the Anglo- Saxons
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Yeah, they were men on
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a mission
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Verse 5
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Preserving their poetry by an
Oral tradition
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Yeah, oral tradition was all you'd get until
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Saint Augustine brought them the alphabet
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Yeah, the Anglo- Saxons
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Yeah, the Anglo- Saxons
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Yeah, in ten sixty- five they were raging
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But ten sixty- six brought
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the Norman invasion
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Yeah, the Anglo- Saxons