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Artist: Show of hands
Song: Roots
Tabbed by: DJ
3rd June 2014
Dm = xx0231 F = 133211 Dm/A = x00231 Bb = x13331
C/E = xx2010 C/G = 332010 G = 320022 C = x32010
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||:Dm / C/E / F/ C/G / | Dm/A / / / / |Dm/A / C/G/ /F C/E/ | Dm / / / / :||x2
Now Dmit's been twenty five years or more,
I've rDmoamed this land from shore to shore
From TyGne to Tamar, Severn to Thames, from Dmmoor to vale, from peak to fen,
PlDmayed in cafes, and pubs, and bars,
I've sDmtood in the street with my old guitar
But IG'd be richer than all the rest, Dmif I had a pound for each request...
...For 'DueFlling Banjos', 'A - meBbrican Pie', F it's enough to mCake you cry,
'RFule Britannia' Bb...or 'Swing Low', are tChey the only songs the English know?
SBbeed, bud, flCower, fruit, they're nDmever gonna grow without their roots,
BrBbanch, sCtem, sDmhoots Dm ...they need roots!
||:Dm / C/E / F/ C/G / | Dm/A / / / / |Dm/A / C/G/ /F C/E/ | Dm / / / / :||x2
AfDmter the speeches when the cake's been cut, the disco is over, and the bar is shut,
At chriGstening, birthday, wedding or wake, Dmwhat can we sing until the morning breaks?
When the InFdian, Asians, ABbfro, Celts, it's Fin their blood, be - lCow the belt,
They're plaFying and dancing Bball night long,
So what've tChey got right that we've got wrong?
SBbeed, bud, flCower, fruit, nDmever gonna grow without their roots,
BrBbanch, sCtem, sDmhoots Dm ...they need roots!
And hDmaul away, boys, let them go ...Fout in the wind, and the rain, and snow,
WG7e've lost more than we'll ever know 'round the Dmrocky sChores of EBbngland,
DmHaul away, boys, let them go ...oFut in the wind, and the rain, and snow,
WG7e've lost more than we'll ever know 'round the Dmrocky sChores of EBbngland!
||: We need rDmootsC/E! F C/G | Dm/A / / / / |Dm/A / C/G/ /F C/E/ | Dm / / / / :||x2
And a mDminister said his vision of hell
(Dm)
...Is three folk singers in a pub near Wells,
(G) (Dm)
Well, I've got a vision of urban sprawl, it's pubs where no one ever sings at all,
And everFyone stares at a gBbreat big screen, ovFer-paid soccer stars, pranCcing teens,
Aus - trFalian soap, A - meBbrican rap, estCuary English, baseball caps!
And we leBbarn to be ashamed, be - fCore we walk,...of the Dmway we look, and the way we talk,
With - Bbout our stories, Cor our songs, hDmow will we know where we've come from?
I've lBbost Saint George in the UnCion Jack, it's Dmmy flag too, and I want it back,
SBbeed, bud, flCower, fruit, nDmever gonna grow without their roots,
BrBbanch, sCtem, sDmhoots Dm ...we need roots!
[A cappella chorus]
(Dm) (F)
And, haul away, boys, let them go ...out in the wind, and the rain, and snow,
(G7) (Dm) (C) (Bb)
We've lost more than we'll ever know 'round the rocky shores of England,
(Dm) (F)
Haul away, boys, let them go ...out in the wind, and the rain, and snow,
(G7) (Dm) (C) (Bb)
We've lost more than we'll ever know 'round the rocky shores of England!
DmHaul away, boys, let them go ...oFut in the wind, and the rain, and snow,
WG7e've lost more than we'll ever know 'round the Dmrocky sChores of EBbngland!
||: Bb DmHaul away, boys, let them go ...oFut in the wind, and the rain,
(Haul a - way------, boys----------------------!)
And snow, we've lG7ost more than we'll ever know 'round the rDmocky shoCres of EnBbgland!:||x2
(Hear the rain, boys------------------!)
(A cappella verse]
Bb Dm (F)
Haul away, boys, let them go ...out in the wind, and the rain,
(Haul a - way------, boys----------------------!)
(G7) Dm C Bb
And snow, we've lost more than we'll ever know 'round the rocky shores of England!
(Hear the rain, boys------------------!)
Bb HDmaul C/Ea - wFay, C/Gboys,Dm/A let them go! | Dm/A / C/G/ F/ C/E/ | Dm/ / / / |
(Haul a - way------, boys--------------!)
WDme've lC/Eost moFre C/Gthan Dm/Awe'll ever know 'round theDm/A rock -C/G y shoFres C/Eof EngBbland,
HDmaul C/Ea - wFay, C/Gboys,Dm/A let them go, |Dm/A / C/G / F/ C/E / | Dm/ / / / |
WDme've lC/Eost moFre C/Gthan Dm/Awe'll ever know 'round theDm/A rock -C/G y shoFres C/Eof EngBbland! C Dm