From Red to Blue Lyrics

Subject: b/bragg_billy/from_red_to_blue.crd
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 14:24:49 +1000
From: Mackay School Support Centre
"From Red to Blue"
by
Billy Bragg
(from the album "William Bloke")
used in the first bar of the intro. On the CD it is actually about a quarter
tone lower than shown below (who cares right?). The breaks aren't quite
perfect but will sound effective enough.
Intro and end of every verse
Another day dawns grey, It's enough to make my spit
Still we go on our way, just putting up with it
And when I try to make my feelings known to you
It sounds like you have changed from red to blue
Well you're a father now, you see things in different ways
For every parent will, gain perspective on their wilder days
But that alone does not explain, the change I see in you
The way you've drifted off from red to blue
Sometimes I think to myself
Should I vote red for my class or green for our children?
But whatever choice I make
I will not foresake e ----------------|
D 10---8----7--5---| (not quite right -
A ----------------| but sounds good anyway)
So you bought it all, the best your money could buy
And I watched you sell your soul for their bright shining lie
Where are the principles of the friend I thought I knew?
I guess you let them fade from red to blue
I hate the compromises that life forces us to make
We must all bend a little if we are not to break
But the ideals you opted out of, I still hold them to be true
F Am Bb Gm F (hold)
I guess they weren't so firmly held by you.
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