England    (video)

 

    C - Am - F - G

 

    C                                                        F            C

1.      What is it about you, makes me feel this way ?

         C                               Am

    When I'm leaving you, when I'm coming home,

           F                         G

    I'm lost for words to say.

                  C

    And I know your faults and failures,

                    F                                         C

    and the troubles that you've been through.

                  Bb                      Dm                           G

    but it's more about what happens now and what were coming to.

                   C                        F                       C                        F

    And the echo from the green hills runs through her city streets,

                  Dm           C            F                       G                       C

    and the sun that shines on England, well, it lifts the heart in me.

 

    C                                             F                    C

2.     What is it about you, that took men into war ?

        C                          Am                                      F            G

    Rows and rows of crosses : Who remembers why, what for?

              C                                                    F                         C

    The corners of these foreign fields, the dust in them concealed.

     Bb                          Dm                                  G

    Out of sight but not out of mind, don't you know that England feels ?

                   C                        F                       C                        F

    And the echo from the green hills runs through her city streets,

          Dm         C           F                         G                         C

    the rain that falls on England, well, it washes care from me.

 

  C   F              C   F        - C - Am - G

England, oh, England !

  C   F              C  F          - Dm - F - G   - C

England, oh, England !

 

                 C                                                F                C

3. Don't make this out a battle hymn or a song of victory.

           C                          Am            F                          G

    it's just a way to try to say what England means to me.

                   C                                                                F              C

    And our accents and our colours change from the city to the farmland,

                     Bb                       Dm                       G

    from the moor-land to the mountain, from the river to the sea.

                  C                        F                       C                        F

    And the echo from the green hills runs through her city streets,

                  Dm            C           F                         G         C

    and the wind that blows in England brings it back to me.

 

  C   F              C   F        - C - Am - G

England, oh, England !

  C   F              C  F          - Dm - C - F - G   - C

England, oh, England !

 

                     C                                                               F                     C

4. From the rolling road to the winding lane, from the field to the factory,

              C                           Am                                    F                     G

    from summer's haze to winter's glaze, and all the colours in between.

               C                                               F                          C

    It's a stillness in the evening, it's the heartbeat that I'm feeling.

              Bb                      Dm                              G

    from Cornwall to Northumberland, from the Pennines to the sea.

                  C                        F                       C                        F

    And the echo from the green hills runs through her city streets,

                  Dm            C            F                  G                      C

    and the wind that blows in England that brings it back to me.

 

  C   F              C   F        - C - Am - G

England, oh, England !

  C   F              C  F          - Dm - C - F - G   - C

England, oh, England !

 

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    (Ralph McTell)