Born In The Uk by Badly Drawn Boy Guitar Chords

Born In The Uk by Badly Drawn Boy Guitar Chords

[Verse 1]
G
Then you see it happen again:
                 G/F#
the world turned over.
D
Wouldn't it be something to
C                 G
live your Life On Mars
       Am       Bm
or at least demanding
    D           C      G    
of some kind of masquerade.

[Verse 2]
G
I never never ever believed
             G/F#
in things uncertain.
D
Hanging round the corner just
C                       G
when do you start doing time
        Am      Bm   D       C
in the case of I, my, me and mine
  G      Em      C     G    
October nineteen sixty nine.

[Verse 3]
G
Where were you in seventy six
              G/F#
the long hot summer?
D
You wanna be a rebel?
      C                  G
Then turn your hosepipes on
         Am       Bm
with two years to wait
         D        C       G    
for the sound of Jilted John.

[Verse 4]
G
Virginia Wade was winning our hearts
             G/F#
she made us want to live.
D
Vicious and his brothers
      C                G
were trying to set us free.
         Am      Bm        D      C
But much more than this to you and me
     G       Em     C   G
this was the Silver Jubilee.

[Interlude]
G  G/F#  F   G/F#m D  F  Em   G
We made something out of nothing.
   G   G/F# F  G/F#m D   F Em G
A sense of loathing and belonging.

[Verse 5]
G
Some of us were gonna be rich
              G/F#
with the Iron Lady.
D
Lennon's gone already.
      C                G
Let's post the boys to war.
    Am      Bm        D        C
Oh mother, what're you worrying for?
      G        Em       C      G
It's somewhere he's not been before.

[Verse 6]
G
Then you see the Union Jack
              G/F#
and it means nothing.
D
But somehow you know
         C                  G
that you will find your own way.
       Am     Bm     D     C
It's a small reminder every day
     G     Em     C   G
that I was born in the U.K.
6 years ago

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