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# Life With The Lions (Billy Bragg)
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#intro: D Bm D Bm A D Bm D Bm
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I hate the arsehole I become
Everytime I’m with you
You know you’ve got me on the run
But let me make it clear to you
It’s taken two fools such as we
To make love deaf, dumb and blind
Now you're upset ‘cos I can’t read your mind love
You’re upset ‘cos I can’t read your mind

I hate the arsehole I become
Everytime I’m with you
I get the feeling looking in your eyes
That somehow I should forgive you
I know that I’m guilty but I don’t know what I’ve done
You’re not about to let me join in the fun are you
You’re not about to let me join in the fun

I hate the arsehole I become
Everytime I'm with you
I hate the way you try to give me back
All the things I give to you
I know when I leave the room
They say what’s up with him
But love is not a game you play to win girl
Love is not a game you play to win

If that face of yours could only talk
The stories it could tell
The chase is always better than the kill, love
D G D D Bm…
The chase is always better than the kill

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#From: gilbert@mis.gla.ac.uk (Gilbert McErlane)
#Ideology – Billy Bragg (Talking to the Taxman about Poetry)
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# – chords – gilbert@salyut.mis.gla.ac.uk
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#(lyrics from cs.uwp.edu)
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#Brilliant Bragg-style ringing chords in this one
#(for which I don’t know all the names) – so give it laldy!!
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#E 022100
#E2 002200
#B 004400
B2 799877
When one voice rules the nation
Just because they’re top of the pile
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
They must declare their interests
But not their company cars
Is there more to a seat in the Parliament
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.

Gil McErlane Management Information Services – Physical Resources Team
University of Glasgow
E-mail: gilbert@salyut.mis.gla.ac.uk
“If you’re not part of the solution, then you’re part of the precipitate”
– Steven Wright

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#this is a fun song to play and works well on both an electric and an acoustic.
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#for electric playing, play power chords (i.e., chords without the third) all
#the way through, occasionally slipping in the third (of the chord) for
#embellishment… use a lot of reverb (at least) and as much distortion as you
#can bear.
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#for acoustic playing, i just strum the chords — in open position —
#agressively with a medium pick.
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#”help save the youth of america”
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[G(5]Help save the youth of [C(5]Americ[G(5]a

Help save them from them[D(5]selves

[G(5]Help save the sunshine [C(5]surfer [G(5]boy

and the [D(5]California [G(5]girls (repeat for all the other verses)

i can’t remember all the words, but some go like this:

A nation with their freezers full
is dancing in their seats
while outside another nation
is sleeping in the streets

last verse:
The cities of Europe have burned before

and they may burn again

and this time if they do you bet

that washington will burn with them

omaha will burn with them

los alamos will burn with them [GGCCGCG]

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#Subject: b/bragg_billy/the_boy_done_good.crd
#Date: 21 May 1997 18:55:25 +0100
#From: “Boulton, Nic”
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#By Bragg/Marr
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strange as it may seem
I once [C/G]had my football dreams
but I was always the l[G+6]ast one
the last to get chosen
when my classmates picked their teams

I guess that was the way it stayed
in [C/G]every game I played
life just [G+6]kicked me
and clattered and tripped me
til you picked from the parade

now I feel like I’ve won the cup
every time that we make love
forty f[C/G]ive minutes each way
at halftime I hear a brassband play

(chorus)
the [C/G]boy done good
the girl done better
seasons turn, [C/G]we’re still together
t[C/G]he sky’s still blue
tomorrow is another day

You weren’t that kind of a bird who
likes her studs to be covered in mud
Taking you to the pictures was a regular fixture
For one of life’s eternal subs

I tried hard acting tough
but I just can’t stand the taste of that stuff
Like some macho park player I got in the way of
In some grudge match against his pub

But I’m happier than I am today
now I’ve put my boots away
I guess I’ll never get picked to play my
song on Match of the Day

(chorus) x 2

chords

EADGBe
022000 – Em
xx0232 – D
332010 – C/G
320030 – G+6
320033 – G
xx4432 – Bm

Nic
Nic.Boulton@bn.cwplc.com