Biography:
Billy Bragg (Stephen William Bragg, Barking, Essex, England, 20 December, 1957) is an English singer, songwriter and left-wing activist. His music blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, and his lyrics mostly deal with political or romantic themes.
In 1977, Bragg formed the punk rock/pub rock band Riff Raff, and toured London's pubs and clubs. The band released a series of singles, which did not receive wide exposure. He also worked in Guy Norris Records in Barking.
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- A New England (kingblues)
- Old Clash Fan Fight Song
- To Have And To Have Not
- A Lover Sings
- A New England
- A13 Trunk Road To The Sea
- Accident Waiting To Happen
- Airline To Heaven
- All You Fascists
- At My Window Sad And Lonely
- Bad Penny
- Between The Wars
- Birds And Ships
- Blood Of The Lamb
- Brickbat
- Bugeye Jim
- California Stars
- Chain Of Broken Hearts
- Cindy Of A Thousand Lives
- Days Like These
- Dry Bed
- Eisler On The Go
- Everybody Loves You Babe
- Everywhere
- Feed Of Man
- Full English Brexit
- Greetings To The New Brunette
- Handyman Blues
- Hard Times Of Old England Retold
- Help Save The Youth Of America
- Hesitating Beauty
- Hobos Lullaby
- Honey Im A Big Boy Now
- Hoodoo Voodoo
- I Aint Got Not Home
- I Almost Killed You
- Ideology
- Ingrid Bergman
- It Says Here
- Levi Stubbs Tears
- Life With Lions
- Life With The Lions
- Like Soldiers Do
- Listening To The Wind That Blows
- Little Time Bomb
- Lovers Town Revisited
- Loving You Too Long
- M For Me
- Must I Paint You A Picture
- My Thirty Thousand
- My Youngest Son Came Home Today
- Never Buy The Sun
- Never Cross A Picket Line
- New England
- No One Knows Anyone Anymore
- No Power Without Accountability
- Northern Industrial Town
- Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted
- One By One
- Only One
- Ontario Quebec And Me
- Price I Pay
- Raglan Road
- Railroad Bill
- Remember The Mountain Bed
- Richard
- Rotting On Remand
- Rule Nor Reason
- Rumours Of War
- Saturday Boy
- Secret Of The Sea
- Sexuality
- She Came Along To Me
- Shes Got A New Spell
- Sin City
- Sing Their Souls Back Home
- Someday Some Morning Sometime
- Spacerace Is Over
- St Swithins Day
- Stetson Kennedy
- Take Down The Union Jack
- Talking Wag Club Blues
- The Boy Done Good
- The Busy Girl Buys Beauty
- The Home Front
- The Internationale
- The Man In The Iron Mask
- The Only One
- The Passion
- The Price I Pay
- The Price Of Oil
- The Short Answer
- The Unwelcome Guest
- The Warmest Room
- There Is Power In A Union
- There Will Be A Reckoning
- Upfield
- Valentines Day Is Over
- Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards
- Walt Whitmans Niece
- Warmest Room
- Way Over Yonder In A Minor Key
- Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key
- Where The Roses Are In Bloom
- Why We Build The Wall
- Wishing The Days Away
- World Turned Upside Down
- You Make Me Brave
- You Woke Up My Neighbourhood
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There is Power in a Union – Billy Bragg
From the album “Talking with the Taxman About Poetry” – 1986
Based on the melody of the song “Battle Cry of Freedom”
The intro riff has been simplified. It doesn’t match exactly what Billy Bragg plays
but it is what I like to play
[CHORDS] EADGBe
GM7/F# 220033
[INTRO Riff]
e:-----|----------------|------12---------|--------------|--------------|
B:-O-1-|-3--3--1-0------|------13-----O-1-|-3--3--1-0--0-|-0--------0-1-|
G:-O-0-|-0--0--0-0--2-0-|-------------O-0-|-0--0--0-0--0-|-0-2------0-0-|
D:-----|------------0-0-|-2-2-------------|--------------|---0----------|
A:-----|----------------|-3-3-------------|--------------|--------------|
E:-----|----------------|-----------------|--------------|--------------|
e:|----------------|-----------------|------------|--------||
B:|-3--3--1-0------|-----------------|--------0-0-|--------||
G:|-0--0--0-0--2-0-|-----------------|-0----2-0-0-|-2-0----||
D:|------------0-0-|-2-2-2-----------|-0----0-----|-0-0----||
A:|----------------|-3-3-3-----------|------------|---2----||
E:|----------------|-----------------|------------|--------||
[VERSE]
G C
There is power in a factory, power in the land
G D Dsus4 D
Power in the hand of the worker
G GM7/F# C
But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand
G D G
There is power in a Union
[VERSE]
G C
Now the lessons of the past were all learned with workers blood
G D Dsus4 D
The mistakes of the bosses we must pay for
G GM7/F# C
From the cities and the farmlands to trenches full of mud
G D G
War has always been the bosses way, sir
[CHORUS]
G
The Union forever defending our rights
G D
Down with the blackleg, all workers unite
G GM7/F# C
With our brothers and our sisters from many far-off lands
G D G
There is power in a Union
[VERSE]
G C
Now I long for the morning that they realize
G D Dsus4 D
Brutality and unjust laws cannot defeat us
G GM7/F# C
But who'll defend the workers who cannot organize?
G D G
When the bosses send their lackeys out to cheat us?
[CHORUS]
G
Money speaks for money, the Devil for his own
G D
Who comes to speak for the skin and the bone?
G GM7/F# C
What a comfort to the widow, a light to the child
G D G
There is power in a Union
[SOLO] – over Chorus Chords
[CHORUS]
G
The Union forever defending our rights
G D
Down with the blackleg, all workers unite
G GM7/F# C
With our brothers and our sisters together we will stand
G D G
There is power in a Union
From the album “Talking with the Taxman About Poetry” – 1986
Based on the melody of the song “Battle Cry of Freedom”
The intro riff has been simplified. It doesn’t match exactly what Billy Bragg plays
but it is what I like to play
[CHORDS] EADGBe
GM7/F# 220033
[INTRO Riff]
e:-----|----------------|------12---------|--------------|--------------|
B:-O-1-|-3--3--1-0------|------13-----O-1-|-3--3--1-0--0-|-0--------0-1-|
G:-O-0-|-0--0--0-0--2-0-|-------------O-0-|-0--0--0-0--0-|-0-2------0-0-|
D:-----|------------0-0-|-2-2-------------|--------------|---0----------|
A:-----|----------------|-3-3-------------|--------------|--------------|
E:-----|----------------|-----------------|--------------|--------------|
e:|----------------|-----------------|------------|--------||
B:|-3--3--1-0------|-----------------|--------0-0-|--------||
G:|-0--0--0-0--2-0-|-----------------|-0----2-0-0-|-2-0----||
D:|------------0-0-|-2-2-2-----------|-0----0-----|-0-0----||
A:|----------------|-3-3-3-----------|------------|---2----||
E:|----------------|-----------------|------------|--------||
[VERSE]
G C
There is power in a factory, power in the land
G D Dsus4 D
Power in the hand of the worker
G GM7/F# C
But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand
G D G
There is power in a Union
[VERSE]
G C
Now the lessons of the past were all learned with workers blood
G D Dsus4 D
The mistakes of the bosses we must pay for
G GM7/F# C
From the cities and the farmlands to trenches full of mud
G D G
War has always been the bosses way, sir
[CHORUS]
G
The Union forever defending our rights
G D
Down with the blackleg, all workers unite
G GM7/F# C
With our brothers and our sisters from many far-off lands
G D G
There is power in a Union
[VERSE]
G C
Now I long for the morning that they realize
G D Dsus4 D
Brutality and unjust laws cannot defeat us
G GM7/F# C
But who'll defend the workers who cannot organize?
G D G
When the bosses send their lackeys out to cheat us?
[CHORUS]
G
Money speaks for money, the Devil for his own
G D
Who comes to speak for the skin and the bone?
G GM7/F# C
What a comfort to the widow, a light to the child
G D G
There is power in a Union
[SOLO] – over Chorus Chords
[CHORUS]
G
The Union forever defending our rights
G D
Down with the blackleg, all workers unite
G GM7/F# C
With our brothers and our sisters together we will stand
G D G
There is power in a Union
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