Bragg Billy - Ideology guitar tab

Ideology - Billy Bragg (Talking to the Taxman about Poetry)

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- chords - gilbert@salyut.mis.gla.ac.uk

(lyrics from cs.uwp.edu)

Brilliant Bragg-style ringing chords in this one

(for which I don't know all the names) - so give it laldy!!

E 022100

E2 002200

B 004400

A 577655

C#m 446654

B2 799877

E E2

When one voice rules the nation

E E2

Just because they're top of the pile

E E2 B E E2

Doesn't mean their vision is the clearest

(repeat pattern)

The voices of the people

Are falling on deaf ears

Our politicians all become careerists

A

They must declare their interests

E

But not their company cars

E C#m

Is there more to a seat in the Parliament

F#m B2

Than sitting on your arse

(pattern 1)

And the best of all this bad bunch

Are shouting to be heard

Above the sound of ideologies clashing

(pattern 1)

Outside the patient millions

Who put them into power

Expect a little more back for their taxes

(pattern 1)

Like schools books,beds in hospitals

And peace in our bloody time

All they get is old men grinding axes

(pattern 2)

Who've built their private fortunes

On the things they can rely

The courts,the secret handshake

The Stock Exchange and the old school tie

(pattern 1)

For God and Queen and Country

All things they justify

Above the sound of ideologies clashing

(pattern 1)

God bless the Civil Service

The nations saving grace

While we expect democracy

They're laughing in our face

And although our cries get louder

Their laughter gets louder still

Above the sound of ideologies clashing

finish on C#m

more to come - eventually.

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University of Glasgow

E-mail: gilbert@salyut.mis.gla.ac.uk

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