Artist: The Clash
[C]They say immigrants steal [F]the hubcaps
Of the re[Dm9]spected [Am]gentlemen
They [F]say it would be wine an' roses
[D]If England were for Englishmen agai[C]n
[C]Well I saw a dirty overcoat
At the [Am]foot of the pillar of the road
[G7]Propped inside was an old man
Whom [Am]time would not erode
When the [C]night was snapped by sirens
Those [Am]blue lights circled fast
The [G7]dancehall called for an' ambulance
The [Am]bars all closed up fast
My[C] silence gazing at the ceiling
While[Am] roaming the single room
I though[G7]t the old man could help me
[C]If he could explain the gloom
Y[Am]ou really think it's all new
Yo[G7]u really think about it too
[Am]The old man scoffed as he spoke to me
I[C]'ll tell you athing or two
[C]I missed the fourteen-eight[F]een war
But [Am]not [Em]the sorrow af[Am]terwards
With my [Dm]father dead and my mother ran [F]off
My [C]brothers took the pay of hood[G]s
[C]The twenties turned the nor[F]th was dead
Th[Am]e hu[Em]nger strike c[Am]ame marching south
At[Dm] the garden party not a word w[F]as said
T[C]he ladies lifted cake to thei[G]r mouths
The [C]next war began and my ship sailed
[Am]With battle orders writ in bed
In [G7]five long years of bullets and shells
We [Am]left tem million dead
The [C]few returned to old Piccadily
We [Am]limped around Leicster Square
The [G7]world was busy rebuilding itself
The [Am]architects could not care
But[C] how could we know when I was young
[Am]All the canges that were to come?
[G7]All the photos in the wallets on the battlefield
[C]And now the terror of the scientific sun
[Am]There was masters an' servants an' servants an' dogs
[G7]They taught you how to touch your cap
[Am]But through strikes an' famine an' war an' peace
[C]England never closed this gap
So [C]leave me now the moon [F]is up
But re[Am]mem[Em]ber all the tales [Am]I tell
The [Dm]memories that you have dredged [F]up
Are on [C]letters forwarded from hell
The[C] streets were by now d[F]eserted
The ga[Am]ngs[Em] had trudged off h[Am]ome
The [Dm]lights clicked off in the bedsi[F]ts
A[C]n' old England was all alone
Of the re[Dm9]spected [Am]gentlemen
They [F]say it would be wine an' roses
[D]If England were for Englishmen agai[C]n
[C]Well I saw a dirty overcoat
At the [Am]foot of the pillar of the road
[G7]Propped inside was an old man
Whom [Am]time would not erode
When the [C]night was snapped by sirens
Those [Am]blue lights circled fast
The [G7]dancehall called for an' ambulance
The [Am]bars all closed up fast
My[C] silence gazing at the ceiling
While[Am] roaming the single room
I though[G7]t the old man could help me
[C]If he could explain the gloom
Y[Am]ou really think it's all new
Yo[G7]u really think about it too
[Am]The old man scoffed as he spoke to me
I[C]'ll tell you athing or two
[C]I missed the fourteen-eight[F]een war
But [Am]not [Em]the sorrow af[Am]terwards
With my [Dm]father dead and my mother ran [F]off
My [C]brothers took the pay of hood[G]s
[C]The twenties turned the nor[F]th was dead
Th[Am]e hu[Em]nger strike c[Am]ame marching south
At[Dm] the garden party not a word w[F]as said
T[C]he ladies lifted cake to thei[G]r mouths
The [C]next war began and my ship sailed
[Am]With battle orders writ in bed
In [G7]five long years of bullets and shells
We [Am]left tem million dead
The [C]few returned to old Piccadily
We [Am]limped around Leicster Square
The [G7]world was busy rebuilding itself
The [Am]architects could not care
But[C] how could we know when I was young
[Am]All the canges that were to come?
[G7]All the photos in the wallets on the battlefield
[C]And now the terror of the scientific sun
[Am]There was masters an' servants an' servants an' dogs
[G7]They taught you how to touch your cap
[Am]But through strikes an' famine an' war an' peace
[C]England never closed this gap
So [C]leave me now the moon [F]is up
But re[Am]mem[Em]ber all the tales [Am]I tell
The [Dm]memories that you have dredged [F]up
Are on [C]letters forwarded from hell
The[C] streets were by now d[F]eserted
The ga[Am]ngs[Em] had trudged off h[Am]ome
The [Dm]lights clicked off in the bedsi[F]ts
A[C]n' old England was all alone
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