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From: wvaughan@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William Vaughan)
Date: 20 Jul 1995 19:06:46 GMT
Subject: CRD Billy Bragg's "St. Swithins Day"

Here's Billy Bragg's "St. Swithins Day" off of Back to
Basics.  Timing is everything here, so listen to the record
too.  With the main picking pattern, during the verses and
the first two times in the intro, the high E string isn't picked
- everywhere else the progression shows up, it is.  A case
could be made that the C/G is really Gsus4, but the latter
sounds better to me. On the last line of the verse (F, C, G)
stress the bass strings.  Capo on 2nd fret.

Chords

  xx3010      xx321x
  xx2010     x02210
    x32010    * xx543x
  3x2010      320003

Intro  C/F  C/E  C  C/G   G  (2 times w/o high E, next two with)
                   

              
Thinking back 

            
now

           
I suppose you 

           
were just stat

                
ing your views

              
What was it al

              
l for

           
For the weathe

           
r or the battl

               
e of Agincourt

             
And the times 

              
that we all ho

          
ped would last

                                  Am (pick through)
Like a train they have gone by so fast

              
And though we 

             
stood together

             
 at the edge o

      
f the platform


We were not moved by them

*Intro pattern again 2 xs with high E)*

*same*
With my own hands
When I make love to your memory
It's not the same
I miss the thunder
I miss the rain
And the fact that you don't understand
Cast a shadow over this land
But the sun still shines from behind it


*same*
Thanks all the same
But I just can't bring myself to answer your letters
It's not your fault
But your honesty touches me like a fire
The polaroids that hold us together
Will surely fade away
Like the love that we spoke of forever
On St. Swithins Day

*Intro with high E and fade into cool keyboard thing*