• Song:

    English Electric Lightning

  • Artist:

    The Wild Swans

  • Album:

    English Electric Lightn...

Intro:    D5        G5         A5      D5        B5          G5             A5
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All the kingdom's quiet now and darkness binds my way
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Voyagers, pilgrims, rebel angels and agents of decay
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In the madness of my 3am's, I'm lost without a guide
                  D5           G5                A5      D5             B5        G5            A5
There's a poisoned wave that's rising fast, And I can't stem the tide...

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English electric lightning protected, Green unpleasant land infected
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Vulcan bombers, cornish harbors, Elizabethan costume dramas
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Council housing, Shakespear's sonnets, Turner's sunset in pools of vomit
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A thousand burning Ford Sierra's,  William Blake in cash converters;  

(Humm X 1) ? D5 ,    B5 ,    A5 ,      D5 ,    B5 ,     E5 ,      A5

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All my demons come at once; my sword is at my side
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Tell me who will stand beside me for this fragile satellite
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English electric lightning protected, Wilton's angels resurrected
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Airfix spitfires, Douglas Bader, Skinheads, bulldogs, Drakes' armada
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Knight in armor, urban foxes,  Ladi Di and mods and rockers
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Trident submarines, Meccano, Thatcher sinking the Belgrano   

(Hum ) ? D5 ,    B5 ,        A5 ,     D5 ,    B5 ,     E5 ,    A5

D5                        G5      A5       D5      B5       G5           A5
In the madness of my 3 am's I'm lost without a guide
D5                     G5                         A5                         B5
English electric lightning protected, Green unpleasant land infected
  E5                       A5
Vulcan bombers, cornish harbors, Elizabethan costume dramas
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Sun reporters, New World Order, Johnny Rotten, Geoffrey Chaucer
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Bargain Booze and Robert Wyatt, Happy-slappers, Toxteth riots

(Hum ? )? D5 ,    B5 ,     A5 ,    D5 ,    B5 ,      E5 ,     A5

D5          G5                 A5    D5          B5      G5             A5       D5
All the kingdom's quiet now and I can't stem the tide alone.
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