The Smiths - A rush and a push

Date: Tue, 12 Sep 95 16:12:41 EDT From: Winston Campbell <jieuryli@eden.rutgers.edu> Subject: A RUSH AND A PUSH AND THE LAND IS OURS by The Smiths A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours (Morrissey/Marr) This piano song that opens up -Strangeways, Here We Come- is quite simple. It is only three chords really. The intro can be played this way: Dm Bb E ---1---1---1---1-----------------|| B ---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3-|| G ---2---2---2---2---3---3---3---3-|| D -0-------0---3-----3---3---3---3-|| A -----0-----------1-------1---3---|| E ---------------------1-----------|| That is basically how the piano plays the intro and possibly the rest of the song. The lyrics without chords on top just go from Dm to Bb: HELLO i am the ghost of troubled joe hung by his pretty white neck some eighteen months ago i travelled to a mystical time zone but i missed my bed so i soon came home, they said: there is too much caffeine in your blood stream and a lack of real spice in your life i said: leave me alone, because i~m alright, dad just surprised to be on my own... a rush and a push and the land that we stand on is ours it has been before so i shall be again and people who are uglier than you and i they take what they need and leave a rush and a push and the land that we stand on is ours it has been before so why can~t it be now? and people who are weaker than you and i they take what they want from life a rush and a push and the land that we stand on is ours your youth may be gone but you~re still a young man so phone me, phone me, phone me phone me, phone me, phone me