The End Of The Beginning Chords

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[Verse 1]
I [F#]have never promised anything about blood,
tears, toil and sweat.
Now, however,
we have a new experience.
We have victory.
A remarkable and definite
victory.
A bright gleam has caught
the helmets of our soldiers
and warmed [G]and cheered
[F#]all [G]our hearts.
[F#]The late Mr. [G]Venizelos
[F#]observed that in all our wars, England,
[A]he ought [F#]to have said
Britain of course,
England [F]al ways wins [G]one battle, the [F#]last.
But [G]we [C]seem to have begun
rather earlier this [G]time.[F#]
[G]General Alexander,
[F#]with[G] his b[F#]rilliant comrade and l[Bb]ieutenant,
[F#]Gene[G]ral Mont[F#]gomery,
[G]has gai[F#]ned a glorious and
decisive victory
in what [G]I think should be called the
[F#]Battle of Egypt.
Rommel's army has been defeated.
It has been routed.
It has been very largely destroyed
as a fighting force.
Now, [G]this is [F#]not the end,
[D]it is not [Am]even the [F#]begin
ning of the end,
but it is perhaps the end
of the beginning.
Henceforward, Hitler's [F]Nazis
[F#]will [G]be equally [F#]well armed
and perhaps even better armed
troops.
Henceforward, they will have to [F]face,
[F#]in many theatres,
that superiority [G]in the air
[F#]which [G]they have so [F#]of ten used
[G]without mercy [F#]against other[G]s,
and of [F#]which they boasted
[F]all round the world.
[G]They were to be the masters,[F#]
[G]and which they intended to use
as the [F#]in strument
[G]for [F#]convincing all other peoples
[Bm]that all [C]resistance to [G]them was [F#]hopeless.
When I [A#]read, [F#]my lords and gentlemen,
[A]of [F#]the coastal road cra[Bb]mmed
[C]with the flying German vehicles
[G]under the blasting attacks
of the Royal Air Force,
[F#]I coul[G]d not but remember
those roads of France and Flanders,
[F]crowded [G]not with fighting men,
but with their helpless refugees,
women and children flee
[Em]ing with their pitiful [F#]bar rows
and [F#]household goods,
[F]on whom such merci
less cruelty would wreak.
I have, my [Bm]Lord Mayor,
I trust a humane disposition,
but I must say I could not health,
feeling that what was happening,
however grievous,
was only justice grimly reclaiming her rights.