From Red to Blue

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Subject: b/bragg_billy/from_red_to_blue.crd

Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 14:24:49 +1000

From: Mackay School Support Centre <mssc@jasper.cqu.edu.au>

"From Red to Blue"

by

Billy Bragg

(from the album "William Bloke")

Notes: I suggest playing it using barre chords with a rhythm similar to that

used in the first bar of the intro. On the CD it is actually about a quarter

tone lower than shown below (who cares right?). The breaks aren't quite

perfect but will sound effective enough.

Transcribed by: Dean Malone

Intro and end of every verse

e   ----1-----1-----|----------------|
B   ----1-----1-----|--1---0---1-0---|
G   ----2-----2-----|--2---0-------0-|
D   ----------------|--2---0---------|
A   ----------------|0---------------|
E   1-----1-----1-3-|----------------|

F Am Gm Bb

Another day dawns grey, It's enough to make my spit

F Am Bb Gm

Still we go on our way, just putting up with it

C Dm C Bb Gm

And when I try to make my feelings known to you

F Am Bb Gm F

It sounds like you have changed from red to blue

F Am Gm Bb

Well you're a father now, you see things in different ways

F Am Bb Gm

For every parent will, gain perspective on their wilder days

C Dm C Bb Gm

But that alone does not explain, the change I see in you

F Am Bb Gm F

The way you've drifted off from red to blue

Dm C Bb F

Sometimes I think to myself

Bb F Bb F

Should I vote red for my class or green for our children?

Dm C Bb F

But whatever choice I make

Bb

I will not foresake e ----------------|

B --8---6---5---3-|

G --9---7---5---3-|

D 10---8----7--5---| (not quite right -

A ----------------| but sounds good anyway)

                           E   ----------------|

F Am Gm Bb

So you bought it all, the best your money could buy

F Am Bb Gm

And I watched you sell your soul for their bright shining lie

C Dm C Bb Gm

Where are the principles of the friend I thought I knew?

F Am Bb Gm F

I guess you let them fade from red to blue

F Am Gm Bb

I hate the compromises that life forces us to make

F Am Bb Gm

We must all bend a little if we are not to break

C Dm C Bb Gm

But the ideals you opted out of, I still hold them to be true

F Am Bb Gm F (hold)

I guess they weren't so firmly held by you.

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