Billy Bragg - Valentine's Day Is Over
Note: C(8), Em(7), Am(5) means the barre chord rooted at the indicated fret.
INTRO:
C F | F C | F C | F G | F C |
VERSE 1:
C F | F C |
Someday boy you'll reap what you've sown
F C | F G |
You'll catch a cold and you'll be on your own
F C | F C |
And you will see that what's wrong with me
F C |
Is wrong with everyone that
Dm G | F C |
You want to play your little games on
C F | F C |
Poetry and flowers pretty words and threats
F C | F G |
You've gone to the dogs again and i'm not placing bets
F C | F C |
On you coming home tonight anything but blind
F C | Dm G |
If you take me for granted then you must expect to find
F C |
Surprise, surprise
C(8) Em(7) Am(5) |
CHORUS:
Am | F C | F G | C(8) Em(7) Am(5) |
Valentine's day is over, it's over
Am | F C | F C |
Valentine's day is over
VERSE 2:
G | F | C | C |
If you want to talk about it well you know where the phone is
G | E | F | Fm |
Don't come round reminding me again how brittle bone is
C | G | F | G
God didn't make you an angel the devil made you a man
| C | E |F | Fm |
That brutality and economy are related now I understand
C | E | F | Fm |
When will you realise that as above so below there is no love
F C | C(8) Em(7) Am(5) |
CHORUS:
Am | F C | F G | C(8) Em(7) Am(5) |
Valentine's day is over, it's over
Am | F C | F C |
Valentine's day is over
INSTRUMENTAL:
G | F | C | C |
G | E | F | Fm |
VERSE 3:
C | G |
For the girl with the hour glass figure
F | G |
Time runs out very fast
C | E | F | Fm |
We used to want the same things but that's all in the past
C | E |
And lately it seems that as it all gets tougher
F | Fm |
Your ideal of justice just becomes rougher and rougher
F C | C(8) Em(7) Am(5) |
CHORUS:
Am | F C | F G | C(8) Em(7) Am(5) |
Valentine's day is over, it's over
Am | F C | F C |
Valentine's day is over
VERSE 4:
C F | F C |
Thank you for the things you bought me thank you for the card
F C | F G |
Thank you for the things you taught me when you hit me hard
F C | F C |
That love between two people must be based on understanding
F C |
Until that's true you'll find your things
Dm G | F C |
All stacked out on the landing, surprise, surprise
C(8) Em(7) Am(5) |
CHORUS:
Am | F C | F G | C(8) Em(7) Am(5) |
Valentine's day is over, it's over
Am | F C | G C | F C | G C
Valentine's day is over, it's over, it's over
