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                Post World War II Blues - Al Stewart
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Notated by Adam Woolfe.



G                            D
  I was a post war baby in a small Scots town

        C                   D
  I was 3 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 a ration book

                         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 radi-o

      Em                A(7)
  And Churchill said to Louis Mountbatten

    Em                  A(7)
  I just can't stand to see you today

  Em                              A(7)
  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         B
  Said 'I don't really care to discuss these things'


      Em(7)  ?                    G
  But oh,    every time I look at you

    Em(7)         (A7)               D
  I feel so low I don't know what to do

  C              D                  G      C
  Every day just seems to bring bad new-oo-oos

  G                       D                 G       ----> next verse or
  Leaves me here with the post world war II blues.        instrumental



The instrumental follows the first 4 lines of the verse ie the chords
GDCDGDCFG and then goes into the second section with a slight variation
before launching into the last verse; the chords here are Em A Em A Em
A C F D G.


Finally at the end of the song is a nice bit that you need to
listen to in order to get the timing right:


Between last chorus and last chorus repeat:

G                       D                 G      A Bm Em(7)
Leaves me here with the post world war II blues.      Oh every.....



After last chorus repeat:

G                       D                 G      A Bm C   G
Leaves me here with the post world war II blues.



Notes
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This is yet another song written in F# (bit of a recurring theme on PPF) but
I play it on a detuned guitar to transpose it into G as written above.

I'm happy with the verse, but the chorus is tricky to work out in parts
(for me) - a rather complicated bass line, and perhaps there are some more
chord changes there. Stuff in brackets means I'm not sure. Of course, any
suggestions/improvements welcomed.