Tonart: A major•
Verse 1
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We're proud to say in every way
we're ordinary folk
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F
But please observe
we still preserve our sturdy
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E
Although as servants of the state
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D
E
we may have been coerced
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D
As we've been told to celebrate
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we'll celebrate or burst
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Though while we brag our
shoulders
sag beneath a heavy yoke
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We all get terribly heated
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D
if it's treated as a joke
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D
So, don't make fun of the festival,
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D
don't make fun of the fair.
We downtrodden British
must learn to be skittish
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and give an impression of
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to the wide, wide world.
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We'll sing God for Harry,
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D
Bm
an d if it turns out all right,
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Knight Gerald Barry.
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Clear the national decks, my lads,
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every one of us counts.
Grab the travellers' cheques, my lads,
Em
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and pray that none of them bounce.
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Face the future and his maid,
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A
pray for further martial aid.
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Have the toast from Cavalcade
Em
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A drastically rewritten
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Peace and Dignity we may lack
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But wave a jolly Trades Union Jack
Hooray for the Festival
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D
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of Britain
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We've never been exactly keen
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On showing off or swank
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But as they say that gay display
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Means money in the bank
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A
We'll make the dreadful Welkin ring
F#m
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E
From Penge to John O 'Groats
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and cheer and shout and
laugh and sing.
Before we cut our throats,
but must support this patriotic prank.
have shot ourselves,
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we've got ourselves to thank.
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G
D
So, don't make fun of the festival,
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D
don't make fun of the fair.
We must pull together in
spite of the weather
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that dampens our spirits
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and straightens our hair.
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Let the people sing,
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D
even though they shiver.
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D
Roses red and noses mauve.
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Over the river,
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though the area's fairly small,
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climb Discovery's Dome.
Take a snooze in the concert hall,
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at least it's warmer than home.
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Even if nobody comes,
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A
don't be conscience -s mitten.
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G
If no overseas trade appears,
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we'll have to work for a
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thousand years
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to pay for the Festival
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D
of Greater.
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Ab
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Don't make fun of the festival,
don't make fun of the fair.
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We must have a look at
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to prevent us from spreading
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can serve whale steaks
when the weather's hotter
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and in place of entrecotes.
What's wrong with Otter?
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Greet the gala with fervence, boys.
Fm
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Learn to dance in the dark.
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Build the Sunday observance, boys.
Fm
Bb
A shrine in Battersea Park.
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Bb
Prance about in funny hats.
Show the foreign diplomats
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Fm
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that our proletariat's milder than a kitten.
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We believe in the right to strike,
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Cm
but no, we bloody well got to like
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our own darling festival.
We pray for the festival,
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Eb
we'll pay for the festival of Britain.
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