The Home Front chords by 
Billy Bragg 
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Key: Eb major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Father
mows the lawn and Mother peels the potatoes
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Grand ma lays the table alone
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And ad justs a photograph
of the unknown soldier
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In this Holy of Holies, the Home
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And from the TV an un
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watched voice
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Suggest s the answer is to plant
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more trees
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The scrawl on the wall says what
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about the work ers
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And the voice of the people says
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more salt please
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Mother shakes her head and read s aloud
Verse 2
from the newspaper
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As Father puts another
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lock on the door
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And re flects upon the violent
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times that we are living in
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While chatting with the
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wife beater nex t door
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If paradis e to you is
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cheap beer and overtime
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Home truths are easily
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missed
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Something that every
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football fan knows
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It only takes five fingers to form a fist
Verse 3
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And when it rain s here it
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rain s so hard
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But never hard enough to
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wash away the sorrow
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I'll trade my love today
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for a greater love tomorrow
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The lonely child looks out and
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dreams of in depend ence
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From this family life sen tence
Verse 4
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Mother sees but does not
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read the peeling posters
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And can't be lieve that
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there's a world to be won
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But in the pub lic schools
and in the public houses
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The Battle of Britain goes on
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The con stant promise of jam tomor row
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Is the New Breed's litany
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an d verse
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If it takes an other war to fill
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the churches of England
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Then the world the meek in herit,
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what will it be worth
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Mother fights the tears and Father,
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his sense of outrage
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And attempts to justify the sacri fice
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To pass their creed down to
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another generation
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'Anything for the quiet life'
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In the Land of a Thousand Doses
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Where nos talgia is the opium of the age
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Our place in History is as
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Clock watchers, old timers,
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window shopper s
Outro 1
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