- A Lover Sings
You and I are victims of a love That lost a lot in the translation When I think of all the time that I spent Sitting on the edge of your bed in anticipation Of ...
- A Lover Sings
From:
[email protected] (William Vaughan) Date: 20 Jul 1995 19:05:41 GMT Here's Billy Braggs "A Lover Sings" off of Back to Basics. Its done in...
- A New England
I was twentyone years when I wrote this song I'm twentytwo now, but I won't be for long People ask me when will you grow up to be a man But all the girls I lov...
- A New England
From:
[email protected] (Francois Rousseau) Billy Bragg's "A New England". You'll have to get the rhythm/feel of this Yourself... a lot of it ...
- A Pict Song
Rome never looks where she treads Always her heavy hooves fall On our stomachs, our hearts and our heads And Rome never hears when we bawl Her sentries pass on...
- Accident Waiting to Happen
I've always been impressed with a girl Who could sing for her supper and get breakfast as well That's the way I am heaven help me He said we don't like peace ca...
- Aginst Th' Law
It's aginst th' law to walk, it's aginst th' law to talk It's aginst th' law to loaf, it's aginst th' law to work It's aginst th' law to read, it's aginst th' l...
- Airline To Heaven
There's an airline plane Flies to Heaven every day Past them pearly gates If you want to ride this train Have your ticket in your hand Before it is too late If ...
- All You Fascists
I'm gonna tell all you fascists you may be surprised The people in this world are getting organized You're bound to lose, you fascists are bound to lose Race h...
- Another Man's Done Gone
Sometimes I think I'm gonna lose my mind But it don't look like I ever do I loved so many people everywhere I went Some too much, others not enough I don't kno...
- At My Window Sad And Lonely
At my window sad and lonely, oft times do I think of thee Sad and lonely and I wonder do you ever think of me? Every day is sad and lonely every night is sad a...
- Bad Penny
I have a letter from her When she worked for the "Woman's Realm" And all the things she promised me She promised herself as well She said, "I wan...
- Between the wars
I was a miner I was a docker I was a railway man Between the wars I raised a family In times of austerity With sweat at the foundry Between the wars. I paid th...
- Between The Wars
E: 13 Mar 1998 15:36:06 Z From: "Boulton, Nic" Subject: TAB:/b/bragg_billy/between_the_wars.tab On the single (AGOEP1) and the CD version of Life's a Riot, but...
- Birds And Ships
The birds are singing in your eyes this day Sweet flowers blossom in your smile The wind and sun are in the words you say Where might your lonesome lover be? B...
- Black Wind Blowing
There's a black wind blowing in the cotton field, honey There's a black wind blowing in the cotton field, baby There's a black wind blowing in the cotton field ...
- Blake's Jerusalem
And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the Holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen? And did the Countenanc...
- Blood Of The Lamb
Are your garments all spotless? Are they white as the snow? Are you washed in the blood of the lamb? Is your soul all spotless? Is it clean as the snow? Are you...
- Body of Water
CHORUS: I will cross this body of water If you promise me you won't try this at home You're where you want to be Where am I I'm up a tree I had a hurt attack R...
- Brickbat
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- Brickbat
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 22:12:09 +0000 From:
[email protected] /b/Billy_Bragg/Brickbat.tab From Willam Bloke [Intro & first half of verse] : G ...
- Brickbat
I ought to leave enough hot water For your morning bath, but I'd not thought I hate to hear you talk that way But I can't bring myself to say I'm sorry The pas...
- California Stars
I'd like to rest my heavy head tonight On a bed of California stars I'd like to lay my weary bones tonight On a bed of California stars I'd love to feel your h...
- Christ For President
Let's have Christ for President. Let us have him for our King. Cast your vote for the Carpenter that you call the Nazarene. The only way we can ever beat these...
- Cindy of a Thousand Lives
Blue velvet America Half glimpsed in the headlights between the trees Who punctured the beauty And invited monsters such as these The pig faced boy the corrupte...
- Days Like These
From
[email protected] (Francois Rousseau) Subject: TAB: Days Like These - Billy Bragg Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 21:32:03 GMT Days Like These (Billy Br...
- Days Like These (U.K. Version)
The party that became so powerful by sinking foreign boats Is dreaming up new promises because promises win votes And being resolute in conference with the ad m...
- Debris
Debris I left you on the debris Of the sunday morning market Searching through odds and ends I was looking for a bargain. Heard your footsteps at the front door...
- Dolphins
Sometimes I think about Saturday's child And all about the time We were running wild I've been searching For the dolphins in the sea And sometimes I wonder Do ...
- Eisler On The Go
Eisler on the go, Eisler on the move Brother is on the vinegar truck and I don't know what I'll do I don't know what I'll do, I don't know what I'll do Eisler'...
- Everybody Loves You Babe
Everybody likes you babe but me I guess that proves how stupid I can be Your father thinks it's swell, your mum hears wedding bells Our friends all say we make ...
- Everywhere
Dig in boys for an extended stay Those were the final orders to come down that day Waiting to be saved in the Philippines You'll wait forever for the young Mari...
- Everywhere
From:
[email protected] (Francois Rousseau) Everywhere - Billy Bragg. From the international smash hit album, ---------- "...
- Feed Of Man
If you Beat up, butcher, and You bleed a man: If you bang up and badger and Bloodlet a man; And then I come along On the feet of man And half way laff and cry '...
- From A Vauxhall Velox
She said "Do these seats fold down" I said "If you pull that handle" All the time she'd been waiting for Something with a little more And al...
- From Red To Blue
Another day dawns grey, its enough to make me spit But we go on our way, just putting up with it And when I try to make my feelings known to you You sound like ...
- Goalhanger
He's got the bonhomie of a game show host And his handshake is so limp its like meeting a ghost His apologies are tired cos he uses them a lot His excuses are s...
- God's Footballer
God's footballer hears the voices of angles Above the choir at Molyneaux God's footballer stands on the doorstep And brings the Good News of the Kingdom to come...
- Greetings to The New Brunette
From:
[email protected] (Brandinius) Greetings to the New Brunette Blly Bragg Intro: G D C D G D Am7 G D Em D C D Em ...
- Greetings To The New Brunette
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- Greetings to The New Brunette
Shirley, It's quite exciting to be sleeping here in this new room Shirley, You're my reason to get out of bed before noon Shirley, You know when we sat out on t...
- Greetings To The New Brunette (Shirley)
Shirley, it's quite exciting to be sleeping here in this new room Shirley, you're my reason to get out of bed before noon Shirley, you know when we sat out on t...
- Heart Like A Wheel
WORDS & MUSIC: Anna McGarrigle
- Help Save The Youth Of America
Help save the youth of America Help save them from themselves Help save the sun-tanned surfer boys And the Californian girls When the lights go out in the rest...
- Help Save The Youth of America
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is a fun song to play and works well on both an electric and an acoustic. Fo...
- Hesitating Beauty
For your sparkling cocky smile I have walked a million miles Begging you to come wed me in the Spring Why do you my dear delay, What makes you laugh and turn aw...
- Honey I'm A Big Boy Now
I can see the kitchen light From the road where I park my bike But it's dark there as it often is these days And the gloomy living room Really needs a dust and ...
- Honey,i'm a Big Boy Now
I can see the kitchen light From the road where I park my bike But it's dark there as it's often is these days And the gloomy living room Really needs a dust an...
- Hoodoo Voodoo
Hoodoo Voodoo, seven twenty one two Haystacka hostacka, A B C High poker, low poker, ninety nine a zero Sidewalk, streetcar, dance a goofy dance Blackbirdy, bl...
- Hot Rod Hotel
I'm a porter and a night clerk at the old Hot Rod Hotel I clean and scrub the lobby down and thirty one rooms as well I wax and shine their boots and shoes, I b...
- I Don't Need This Pressure Ron
What was that bang? It was the next big thing Exploding over our heads And soon the next generation Will emerge from behind the bike sheds What are we going to ...
- I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night
I dreamed I saw Phil Ochs last night Alive as you and me Says I to Phil "You're ten years dead" "I never died" says he "I never died&qu...
- I Guess I Planted
I guess I planted some long lonesome seed of a song Way down inside me long ago And now I can't remember when it was But it joined up with the rest of them and ...
- I Was Born
I was born at Half Past 12, almost One in the morning; I was born at Half Past One, almost Two in the morning. Now my birthday comes again and I don't know how ...
- Ideology
From:
[email protected] (Gilbert McErlane) Ideology - Billy Bragg (Talking to the Taxman about Poetry) -----------------------------------------------------...
- Ideology
When one voice rules the nation Just because they're top of the pile Doesn't mean their vision is the clearest The voices of the people Are falling on deaf ears...
- Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman, Ingrid Bergman, let's go make a picture On the island of Stromboli, Ingrid Bergman Ingrid Bergman, you're so perty, you'd make any mountain qui...
- Island Of No Return
Digging all day and digging all night To keep my foxhole out of sight Digging into dinner on a plate on my knees The smell of damp webbing in the morning breeze...
- It Says Here
It says here that the Unions will never learn It says here that the economy is on the upturn And it says here we should be proud That we are free And our free p...
- Jeane
WORDS & MUSIC: Morrissey/Marr
- Joe Dimaggio Done It Again
Joe Deemaggyoe done it again! Joe Deemaggyoe done it again! Clackin' that bat, Gone with the wind! Joe Deemaggyoe done it again! Some folks thot Big Joe was do...
- King James Version
He was trapped in a haircut he no longer believed in She said "I'm a teacher here. I teach the children." And he wondered to himself there and then th...
- Levi Stubbs Tears
From:
[email protected] (William Vaughan) Subject: CRD: Levi Stubbs Tears (Billy Bragg) I've seen a couple request for this so I thought I'd pu...
- Levi Stubbs Tears
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- Levi Stubbs' Tears
With the money from her accident She bought herself a mobile home So at least she could get some enjoyment Out of being alone No one could say that she was left...
- Life With Lions
From
[email protected] (Francois Rousseau) Subject: TAB: Life With Lions (Billy Bragg) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 02:49:54 GMT Life With The Lions (Bill...
- Life With Lions
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- Life With The Lions
I hate the arsehole I become Every time 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 l...
- Life With The Lions
Life With The Lions (Billy Bragg) Intro: D Bm D Bm A D Bm D Bm D G A I hate the arsehole I become G Everytime I'm with you D G...
- Life With The Lions
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- Like Soldiers Do
Blues eyes fighting the grey eyes fighting the tears Armed to the teeth for a war of words Reaching all the years I advanced across a poppy field I saw the glea...
- Little Time Bomb
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- Little Time Bomb
One of them's off her food And the other one's off his head And both of them are off down the boozer To drink a toast To the one that he hates most And she says...
- Little Time Bomb
From
[email protected] (Francois Rousseau) Subject: AOTW: Billy Bragg: Little Time bomb Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 05:54:49 GMT Little Time Bomb (Billy ...
- Love Gets Dangerous
Love Gets Dangerous - Billy Bragg --------------------------------- Trans:
[email protected] (Gil McErlane) Either play the open bass continually or ...
- Love Gets Dangerous
The love of a woman A fear of the phone A secret message to a happy home I've never been so scared I never knew you cared Love gets dangerous Love gets dangerou...
- Lovers Town
Date: 25 Jan 1998 23:24:37 Z From: "Boulton, Nic" Subject: TAB:/b/bragg_billy/lovers_town.tab From the first Peel session(21/2/84), available on the Strange Fr...
- Lovers Town Revisited
It's that summer of the evening Get ready and roll the cassette There's boys outside preaching genocide And trying to think up some sort of threat And the ladie...
- Mbh
I hate you, When I see you on the street, Acting hard, thinking on your feet, Treating me like some piece of meat. I forgive you, the things you do, forgive me...
- Meanest Man
If the folks next door to me wasn't so good I'd do all the mean things anybody could I'd drink and I'd gamble and I'd louse around I'd be the meanest man in thi...
- Mother Of The Bride
The Reverend Mother went and got me a drink She came back and said to me "Well what do you think?" I said "I've made myself a fool For the pretti...
- Moving The Goalposts
I put on my raincoat to make it rain And sure enough the skies opened up again I dreamed of you as I walked to the shops You were dancing with the wallies on To...
- Moving The Goalposts
E: 13 Mar 1998 15:35:52 Z From: "Boulton, Nic" Subject: CRD:/b/bragg_billy/moving_the_goalposts.crd From Don't Try This at Home. Put a capo at the 7th fret to ...
- Must I Paint You A Picture
It's bad timing and me We find a lot of things out this way And there's you A little black cloud in a dress The temptation To take the precious things we have a...
- Must I Paint You A Picture
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- Must i Paint You a Picture
From
[email protected] (Francois Rousseau) Subject: AOTW: Billy Bragg: Must I Paint You A Picture Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 05:50:48 GMT Must I paint ...
- My Flying Saucer
My flying saucer where can you be Since that sad night that you sailed away from me? My flying saucer I pray this night You will sail back before the day gets b...
- My Youngest Son Came Home Today
My Youngest Son Came Home Today Hello there. First time tabber, so forgive any errors you uncover. This is an old anti-war tune that should probably also be lis...
- My Youngest Son Came Home Today
My youngest son came home today His friends marched with him all the way The fife and drum beat out the time While in his box of polished pine Like dead meat on...
- New England
I was twenty one years when I wrote this song I'm twenty two now, but I won't be for long People ask when will you grow up to be a man But all the girls I loved...
- New England
From:
[email protected] (Steve Coombs) Subject: CRD: New England by Billy Bragg The Verses are all like this.. |F |F I was twenty-one years when i...
- New England
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- Nicaragua Nicaraguita
Oh Nicaragua Nicaraguita most beautiful flower of my love fertilized with the blessed blood of Diriangen Oh Nicaragua you are even sweeter Than the honey from ...
- North Sea Bubble
I went out drinking with Thomas Paine He said that all revolutions are not the same They are as different as the cultures That give them birth For no one idea C...
- Northern Industrial Town
It's just a northern industrial town The front doors of the houses open into the street There's no room for front gardens, just two-up two-down In a northern in...
- One By One
One by one the teardrops fall as I write to you One by one my words come falling on the page One by one my dreams are fading in the twilight One by one my schem...
- Only One
From
[email protected] (Francois Rousseau) Subject: TAB: The Only One - Billy Bragg Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 02:52:29 GMT The Only One (Billy Bragg) I...
- Only One
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- Ontario Quebec And Me
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- Ontario Quebec And me
From
[email protected] (Francois Rousseau) Subject: AOTW: Billy Bragg: Ontario, Quebec and me Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 05:56:03 GMT Ontario, Quebec an...