• Song:

    Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert And Southampton Dock

  • Artist:

    Roger Waters

Roger Waters (Acoustic Guitar) In The Flesh Live

G5
Brezhnev took Afghanistan
C5
And Begin took Beirut
D5                       G5
Galtieri took the Union Jack
    G5
And Maggie, over lunch one day,
       C5
Took a cruiser with all hands
  D5                              G5
Apparently to make him give it back.
        C5                          G5
Uuuuuuuh Maggie what have you done?
G5
They disembarked in 45,
C5
And no-one spoke and no-one smiled
D5                                  G5
There were to many spaces in the line

Gathered at the cenotaph
C5
All agreed with the hand on heart,
D5                              G5
To sheath the sacrificial knives
            G5
But now she stands upon Southampton dock
         C5
With her handkerchief
                     D5
And her summer frock clings
                          G5
To her wet body in the rain.

In quiet desperation knuckles
C5
White upon the slippery reins
    D5                                 G5
She bravely waves the boys goodbye again
        C5                          G5
Uuuuuuuh Maggie what have you done?
C5
And still the dark stain spreads between
    G5
His shoulder blades
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A mute reminder of the poppy fields and graves
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And when the fight was over
   G5          C5      E5
We spent what they had made
    A5
But in the bottom of our hearts
                  
We felt the final cut.

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