Chords for Al Stewart - On The Border (2001)

[N] This is a song about [G] the_
This is the only song ever to make the [Dm] American top 40 about the Basque separatist [Gb] movement, the Radician crisis and the decline and fall of the British Empire.
_ _ Which goes to prove my point that
this jock is not listenable. _
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_ _ This is a song about the Basque people and the Basque people's struggle.
This is a song about the Basque people and the Basque people's struggle.
This is a song about the colours of the night's warming.
_ _ An [Db] African well-infected change is _ coming.
The [Bbm] punches flare up in the night.
The hammer [Gb] sets the bombs alight.
[Fm] A spreading fire to those awaiting on the border. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] I swear I grew [Ebm] up and nothing seems the same.
All [Db] that I know just remains an [Ab] empty shell.
_ _ [Db] There's a strange little sneak in the field [C] you growl. _ _ _
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_ _ _ The shooting birds go howling west.
Evening watch. _ _
[Db] Smuggling guns and bombs west.
Spanish border.
_ _ The wind [Bbm] whips up the waves to land [Ab] them.
With those poor [Gb] sails among the pines.
[Fm] The rifles [Eb] seem to [Fm] serve them on the border. _
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_ _ [Fm] _ On the border.
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