Lirik dan Chord Lagu Something about England - The Clash

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - “Something About England” adalah lagu yang dibawakan oleh grup band rock legendaris asal Inggris, The Clash.

Lirik lagu ini ditulis oleh semua anggota band, Topper Headon, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon dan Joe Strummer.

“Something About England” dirilis pada 12 Desember 1980 dan merupakan bagian dari album keempat mereka yang bertajuk Sandinista!.

Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu The Guns of Brixton - The Clash

Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Something About England” dari The Clash.

C                                  F
They say immigrants steal the hubcaps
            Dm9             Am
Of the respected gentlemen
          F
They say it would be wine an' roses
D                                                  C
If England were for Englishmen again

C
Well I saw a dirty overcoat
           Am
At the foot of the pillar of the road
G7
Propped inside was an old man
          Am
Whom time would not erode
                 C
When the night was snapped by sirens
            Am
Those blue lights circled fast
        G7
The dancehall called for an' ambulance
         Am
The bars all closed up fast
    C
My silence gazing at the ceiling
         Am
While roaming the single room
            G7
I thought the old man could help me
Am
If he could explain the gloom
  C
You really think it's all new
    Am
You really think about it too
G7
The old man scoffed as he spoke to me
  Am
I'll tell you a thing or two

C                                     F
I missed the fourteen-eighteen war
       Am   Em               Am
But not the sorrow afterwards
               Dm                                             F
With my father dead and my mother ran off
        C                                          G
My brothers took the pay of hoods
C                                        F
The twenties turned the north was dead
   Am   Em                 Am
The hunger strike came marching south
  Dm                                             F
At the garden party not a word was said
       C                                   G
The ladies lifted cake to their mouths

        C
The next war began and my ship sailed
Am
With battle orders writ in red
       G7
In five long years of bullets and shells
       Am
We left tem million dead
        C
The few returned to old Piccadily
        Am
We limped around Leicster Square
        G7
The world was busy rebuilding itself
         Am
The architects could not care
     C
But how could we know when I was young
Am
All the canges that were to come?
G7
All the photos in the wallets on the battlefield
Am
And now the terror of the scientific sun
C
There was masters an' servants an' servants an' dogs
Am
They taught you how to touch your cap
G7
But through strikes an' famine an' war an' peace
Am
England never closed this gap

      C                                    F
So leave me now the moon is up
         Am Em                      Am
But remember all the tales I tell
        Dm                                                F
The memories that you have dredged up
              C
Are on letters forwarded from hell

C    Am   G7    Am

     C                                     F
The streets were by now deserted
         Am Em                           Am
The gangs had trudged off home
         Dm                                    F
The lights clicked off in the bedsits
C
An' old England was all alone