Over Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
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[Verse 1]
[Am]First of
all there was Victoria
Happy and glor[G]ious
She saw the 20th century in for [Am]us
Had no idea how severe [Em]the changes
would be [Am]in the next 20 years
South [F]Africa started with bitterness
Europe's young [Em]men were cut
down for big business
Newsreels,[Dm]cars, aeroplanes,
real revolutions.
Yes Sir and [E]No Sir were old institutions
[Am]Over... over my [C]shoulder. [G]Wave...
wave [Am]goodbye[C]
[G][Am]
Next there was prohibition
and the depres[G]sion
And national radio Gang[Am]sters and fear,
the jazz era
Black and white [Em]movies,
failed [Am]Wall Street careers
[F]The 30's kicked off with dictatorships
Hitler and [Em]Stalin the
'special' relationships
World War [Am]2 came
[Dm]to a nuclear conclusions
And the [E]women came
back disillusioned.
[Am]Over... over my [C]shoulder. [G]Wave...
wave [Am]goodbye.[C]
[G][Am]
First in line there was Elisabeth
Queen in the mak[G]ing
Came in with Korea and Cold
War and [Am]Berlin,
Israel and Hungary
Nato secur[Em]ity, [Am]rock and roll children.
[F]The 60's ignited with Dylan
The Beatles, the [Em]space Race
and civil rights killing
[Dm]68 riots and Vietnam shame
Flowerpower[E] promised but
Flowerpower failed
[Am]Over... over my [C]shoulder. [G]Wave...
wave [Am]goodbye[C]
[G][Am]
In the end there was Diana
A Princess de[G]signer
Fell foul of the system
And died by a chauf[Am]feur
Aids and ecology
Mines and pollution,
Fight[Em]s against dru[Am]gs
and the Third World il[F]lusion
Shah out of Iran, more trouble in Ire[Em]land
Small wars with a good cause from
the Gulf to the Falk[Am]lands
[Dm]Watergate, Chernobyl, Afgh[E]anistan
End of a century end of a [Am]sym phony
Over... over my [C]shoulder. [G]Wave...
wave [Am]goodbye

[Outro 1]
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