The Home Front Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[D][G][D][G][A]
[D][G][D][G][A]

[Verse 1]
[D]Father
mows the lawn and Mother peels the potatoes
[G]Gra[D]ndma lays the[G] table alo[A]ne
And ad[D]justs a photograph
of the unknown soldier
[G]In this Hol[D]y of Hol[G]ies, the[Em] Home[A]
[G]And from the [D]TV an un
[Em]watched [F#m]voice
Suggest[G]s the a[D]nswer is to plant
more [Em]trees[F#m]
The scrawl [D]on the wall says [Em]what
about the work[F#m]ers
And the [G]voice of the [A]people says
[Bm]more salt [D]please
Mother shakes her [Bm]head [D]and reads aloud

[Verse 2]
from the newspaper
[G]As Father [D]puts another
[G]lock on [A]the door
And re[D]flects upon the violent
times [A]that we are [D]living in
[G]While chatting wit[D]h the
wife [G]beater nex[A]t door
If [G]paradis[D]e to you is
[Em]cheap beer and [F#m]overtime
[G]Home tru[D]ths are easily
[Em]miss[F#m]ed
[D]Something that every
[Em]football fan [F#m]knows
It only [G]takes five [A]fingers [Em]to form [Bm]a fis[D]t

[Verse 3]
[Bm]And when it rain[A]s here it
rain[F#m]s so h[A]ard[F#m]
[Em]But never hard[F#m] enough to
[G]wash away [A]the sorrow
[Em]I'll trade my love[F#m] today
for a [G]greater love tomorrow
[Em]The lonely child[F#m] looks out and
dreams of [G]in depend[A]ence
From this [Bm]family [A]life senten[D]ce[Em]

[Verse 4]
[D]Mother see[Bm]s but doe[D]s not
[Bm]read [D]the peeling posters
[G]And can't belie[D]ve that
there's a world to [G]be [A]won
[D]But in the public[Bm] scho[D]ols
and in the public houses
[G]The Bat[D]tle of Britain goe[G]s on[A]
The [G]constant [D]promise of [Em]jam tomorr[F#m]ow
[D]Is the New[G] Breed's lit[D]any
an[Em]d ve[F#m]rse
If it takes an[D]other war to fill
the [Em]churches of [F#m]England
Then the world the [G]meek in[A]herit,
what [Bm]will it be [G]worth[D]
Mother fights [Bm]the tears [D]and Father,

[Verse 5]
his sense of outrage
[G]And attempts to [D]justify the[G] sacrific[A]e
[D]To pass their cre[Bm]ed down to[D]
another [G]generation
[D]'Anything for the [G]quiet [A]lif[G]e'
In [D]the Land of a [Em]Thousand [F#m]Doses
Where nos[D]talgia is the opium of the [Em]age
[F#m]Our pl[D]ace in History is as[Em]
Clock [F#m]watchers, [G]old tim[A]ers,
[Bm]window [F#m]shoppers

[Outro 1]
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