Who Told You Folk Music Was Yours

A Asus4 Asus4 A A A / /// / /// / /// /// A Asus4 Asus4 A /// / /// / A Asus4 A E ----------- B -2h3p2----- G -------2--- D ----------- A ----------- E ----------- A D A Asus4 A Who told you folk music was yours A D A Asus4 A Is it something you heard in the chords F#m Did you dig up our roots F#m From the fiddle and the flute A D A Asus4 A Or was it the ghost of Saint George A E A Asus4 A Who told you folk music was yours A D A Asus4 A Who showed you your family tree A D A Asus4 A 'Cause those branches are broken you see F#m Did your nationalist pain F#m Spring from Celts and Danes A D A Asus4 A Or was it our half German queen A E A Asus4 A Who showed you your family tree F#m Playing Bellowhead backwards F#m A Do you Anglo Saxons all hear E A subliminal code and F#m Is your whole agenda F#m A Mapped out by the end of the spinning reel E By Spears and Bowden D Or do you see a country E Draped in red and white F#m Where blacks only seen B Under cover of night D Do the Ceilidh Caller E And the Morris Man F#m All appeal to your sense B D D D D Of a long lost England A D A Asus4 A But who said you have right to belong A D A Asus4 A Was that something you stole from our songs F#m That have been sung through out time F#m Every note, every line A D A Asus4 A Hand me down by the writer Anon A E A Asus4 A Did he say you have right to belong A D A Asus4 A And who gave you the key to the door A D A Asus4 A Did you pick it up during the war F#m Keep it in your pocket F#m Until it's time to unlock it A D A Asus4 A And stop anyone from coming ashore A E A Asus4 A For who gave you the key to the door F#m Or was it the underdog F#m A All that hard work and slog E From sailors to farmers F#m And that formed your racism F#m A Your sense of place and your love E Of a tikka masala D All them songs about soldiers E All sent off to war F#m B Make you forget what you were fighting for D As you fly the flag E And dream of green pastures F#m We recall the strength B B Of the Tolpuddle martyrs B C#m F#m Well you can still make a fuss at any debate D E Oh but here social justice transcends every race D E F#m F#m F#m F#m But I'm glad you think folk music's good D E A A Asus4 Asus4 A A But you seem to have misunderstood /// / /// / /// A D A Asus4 A So stop sitting there on the fence A D A Asus4 A The fight is about to commence F#m Songs bring us together F#m But to change the weather A D A Asus4 A But then it's up to the whole audience A E A Asus4 A So stop sitting there on the fence A D A Asus4 A 'Cause folk music belongs to us all A D A Asus4 A It catches whenever we fall F#m Across villages and towns F#m The songs will ring out Bm Down the valleys and streams Bm Carrying hopes and dreams F#m You can hear people come F#m To the sound of the drum Bm It's inclusivity Bm Just the fact that it's free A D A Asus4 A Means no fences, no doors, no walls A E A Asus4 A 'Cause folk music belongs to us all F#m It's inclusivity F#m The mere fact that it's free A D A Asus4 A Means no fences, no doors, no walls A E D D D A E A 'Cause folk music belongs to us all /// /// / / /