This is Not Your Country Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Em]Road blocks and fire[B][D#aug]
[G]Barb wire [A]upon barb [C]wire
[B]This is not your [Em]count[E]ry

[Verse 2]
[Em]Armoured [B]cars,
[D#aug]corrugate[G]d scars[A]
[C]Graffiti [B]scrawls:
"This is not your coun[Em]try"

[Interlude 1]
[Em][E][B]
[Em][B][Em][G#m][Em][C#][F#][B]

[Verse 3]
[Em]Home [D#aug]sweet fortress
[G]Gunshot - we [A]hate your kind
Get back[C]!
[B]This is not your [Em]country

[Verse 4]
I [Em]need [C]som[Em]e air[D#aug][B]
And I'm [G]stopped and repeatedly
[A]questioned:
"Born and [C]raised ?"
But [B]this is not [Em]my country

[Verse 5]
We're [G]old news
[D]All's well
[G]Say BBC scum
[A]One[Am] child shot[Bm],
[C]but so what?
[D][D#]

[Verse 6]
[Em]
Laid my [D#aug]son
In a [G]box, three feet [A]long
And I [C]still [B]don't know why
[Em]

[Verse 7]
[C]A short [Em]walk [D#aug]home
[G]becomes a run[A]
And I'm [C]scared[B]
In my [Em]own country

[Interlude 2]
[Em][B][Em][B][Em]
[C][G#m][Em][C#][F#][B]

[Verse 8]
We're [G]old news
[D]All's well
[Bm]Say [G]BBC scum
[A]Everybody's under[Am] control
[Bm]Of our surveillance [C]globes
[D]We're

[Verse 9]
[G]old news
[D]All's well
And [G]thirty years could be a thou[A]sand
And [Am]this Peugeot ad
Spins [Bm]round in my [C]head[D][D#][Fm]
British [Eaug]soldier [Ab]pointing a [Bb]gun
And I'm [Db]only trying to post
[C]a letter[Fm]
A short walk [Eaug]home be[C]come[Ab]s a run[Bb]
And [Db]I'm scared, and I'm scared,
[C]I am [Fm]scared

[Verse 10]
[Ab]Old news
All's well

[Verse 11]
BBC scum
[Bb]You've got more than the d[Bbm]ead,
so [E]zip [Gb]up your m[Ab]outh
Zip up your mouth
[Eb]Zip [Ab]up your mouth[Bb][Bbm][E][Gb][Ab]
Zip up [Eb]your mouth (repeated)

[Outro 1]
[Ab][Bb][Bbm][E][Gb][Ab][Bb]
[Bbm][Dbm][E][Gb][Ab][Bb][Bbm]