Post World War Two Blues - Al Stewart Chords
Chords: G, D, C, F, Em, A, B
More chords by Al Stewart
Genre: folk, rock, blues
On the Past Present And Future album, the song is played in the key of F#.
But Al probably played it on a
guitar detuned down by one semi-tone and with chord shapes in the key of G
which is how I have tabbed it.
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[Intro]
G
[Verse 1]
G D
I was a post-war baby in a small Scots town
C D
I was three years old when we moved down South
G D
Hard times written in my mother's looks
C F G
With her widow's pension and her ration books
D
Aneurin Bevin took the miner's cause
C D
To the House of Commons in his coal dust voice
G D
We were locked up safe and warm from the snow
C F G
With Life With The Lions on the radio
Em A
And Churchill said to Louis Mountbatten
Em A
"I just can't stand to see you today
Em A
How could you've gone and given India away?"
C D
Mountbatten just frowned said "What can I say?
G D
Some of these things slip through your hands
C D
And there's no good talking or making plans"
G C
But Churchill he just flapped his wings
A D
Said "I don't really care to discuss these things
[Chorus]
Em A
But oh, every time I look at you
Em D
I feel so low I don't know what to do
C D G C
Well, every day just seems to bring bad new-oo-oos
G D G
Leaves me here with the Post World War II blues".
[Verse 2]
G D
1959 was a very strange time
C D
A bad year for Labour and a good year for wine
G D
Uncle Ike was our American pal
C F G
And nobody talked about the Suez Canal
G D
I can still remember the last time I cried
C D
The day that Buddy Holly died
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