Why We Build the Wall chords by Billy Bragg
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Verse 1
(A minor) (C major) (G major) (A minor) (C major) (D major) (A minor)
Why
do we build the wall?
(C major) My children, (G major) my children
(A minor) Why do we build the wall? (C major) (D major) (A minor)
Verse 2
Why do (A minor) we build the wall?
We (C major) build the wall (G major) to keep us free
That's (A minor) why we build the wall
We build the (C major) wall, to (D major) keep (A minor) us free (C major)
(A minor) How does the wall keep us free? (C major) My
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Verse 3
children, (G major) my children
(A minor) How does the wall keep
us free? (C major) (D major) (A minor)
Verse 4
How does the wall keep us free?
(C major) The wall keeps (G major) out the enemy
And we (C major) build the wall to (G major) keep us free
That's (A minor) why we build the wall
We build the (C major) wall to keep (D major) (A minor) us free
Verse 5
Who do we call (A minor) the enemy?
(C major) My children, (G major) my children
Who (A minor) do we call the enemy?
(C major) (D major) (A minor)
Verse 6
Who do we call the enemy?
(C major) The enemy (G major) is poverty
And the (C major) wall keeps out (G major) the enemy
And we (C major) build the wall to (G major) keep us free
That's (A minor) why we build the wall
We build the (C major) wall (D major) to keep (A minor) us free
Verse 7
Because we have and they (D major) have not
(C major) My children, (G major) my children
(A minor) Because they want what
we have got (C major) (D major) (A minor)
Verse 8
Because we have and they have not
(C major) The enemy is (G major) poverty
And the (C major) wall keeps out (G major) the enemy
And we (C major) build the wall to (G major) keep us free
That's (A minor) why we build the wall
We build the (C major) wall to (D major) keep us (A minor) free
(C major) What do we (A minor) have
Verse 9
(C major) that they should want?
My children, (G major) my children
(A minor) What do we have that they
should want? (C major) (D major) (A minor)
Verse 10
What do we have that they should want?
(C major) We have a wall to (G major) work upon
(C major) We have work and (G major) they have none
(C major) And our work (G major) is never done
(C major) My children, (G major) my children
(C major) And the war (G major) is never won
(C major) The enemy (G major) is poverty
And the (C major) wall keeps out (G major) the enemy
And we (C major) build the wall to (G major) keep us free
That's (A minor) why we build the wall
We build the (C major) wall to (D major) keep us (A minor) free
We build the (C major) wall to keep (D major) us (A minor) fre
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