Tonart: Gb major
Verse 1
D
Em
A
D
It happened in the springtime
in the year of sixty -four
Em
A
When Englishmen
were making pounds
D
and fivers by the score
B
He beat them on the hollows,
he beat them on the bunks
Em
A
And a pair of fancy fetlocks
D
he shoved them on the jumps
Because he's English, he's English,
Em
he's English as the Queen
A
A little bit of Arab stock,
D
but more from Stephen's Green
B
Take one look at Millhouse,
Em
throw out your chest with pride
A
The greatest evil chaser
D
in the English countryside
Em
A
and in front of our door
D
Till a quiet man named Draper,
Em
living in the Emerald Isle
Said that horse of yours
A
called Millhouse,
D
he shows a bit of style
B
But I've a little fellow,
and Arkel is his name
Em
A
Put your money where
you put your mouth,
D
and then we'll play the game
Those racing English gentlemen,
they laugh too fit to boast
Em
A
You tried before, Tom Draper,
D
and then you came off worst
B
You think your horse could beat us?
Why, that's blarney and romance
Em
A
It's Milhouse that you're up against,
D
and you haven't got a chance
A
D
Be cause he's English, he's English,
he's English as the Queen
Em
A
A little bit of Arab stock,
D
but more from Stephen's Green
B
Take one look at Milhouse,
throw out your chest with pride
Em
A
He's the greatest steeplechaser
D
in the English countryside
Empire fed and empire fed,
Em
B
A
and English to the core
D
Arkham now is five to two,
Milhouse is money on
A
They're off, and dear believe I do,
B
the champion, he has won
D
B
There are other horses in the race
Em
to test the great chap's might
A
But dearie me, it's plain to see
the rest are out of sight
D
Because he's English, he's English,
Em
he's English as the Queen
A
A little bit of Arab stock,
D
but more from Stephen's Green
B
Take one look at Milhouse,
throw out your chest with pride
Em
A
The greatest steeplechaser
D
Em
A
in the English countryside
Eb
Three more fences still to go,
he leads by twenty lengths
Fm
F
Bb
Bray Markel's putting on a show,
poor chap, he's almost spent
Eb
C
Mil house sleeps on majestically,
Fm
great glory in each stride
F
Bb
The greatest horse, undoubtedly,
in the whole world wide
Eb
Because he's English, he's English,
he's English as the Queen
F
Bb
A little bit of Aristotle,
but more from Stephen's Green
Eb
C
Take one look at Milhouse,
Fm
throw out your chest with pride
Bb
He's the greatest steeple -chaser
Eb
Fm
Bb
in the English countryside
B
Em
It's two more fences,
B
our cook comes cutting down the wheat
But it's over by the shouting,
he hasn't got the speed
Db
They're on the run up to the last,
B
D
oh Lord, can he hold out?
B
Look be hind you, Willie Robertson,
man, what are you about?
C
They're on the last and over,
Pat Taffer's mould in hand
D
C
He's past England's millhouse,
the finest in the land
D
Oh Lord, he has us beaten,
Gm
what can the English say but
Gm
C
F
Too early in the day
Oh yes, he's Irish, he's Irish
He's Irish as they dream
Bb
C
That little horse called Arco
F
He's the finest you have seen
Gm
And he gave an Irish burst
C
The day that England came in second
F
Bb
F
C
F
Arco came in first you
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