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Song title:       A New England
Original Album:   Life's A Riot With Spy vs Spy (Billy Bragg)
Album:            Galore                        (Kirsty MacColl)

Words and Music by Billy Bragg (additional words by Kirsty MacColl)
Copyright © 1983 Stiff Music
Published by BMG Music Publishing Ltd.

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Kirsty MacColl famously added some extra words to BB's original song because
she thought it was too short. After her tragic, and untimely, death in 2000, 
BB always sang the added words, as a tribute, whenever he performed the song.

I love the way the verse powers into the chorus on the same chord! And the 
drum roll into the second part of the chorus. ;)

Here is that version. Enjoy!


INTRO:
Chords:
C  xxx988
G  xxx787
F  xxx565
C  xxx553

[play:  C  G  F  C]    [see note]


VERSE:
      C
I was twenty-one years when I wrote this song
    G                     Am
I'm twenty-two now, but I won't be for long
F                              C          Am
People ask me when will I grow up to understand
        G                            F                 C
Why the girls I knew at school are already pushing prams


VERSE:
  C
I loved you then as I love you still
         G                          Am
Though I put you on a pedestal, you put me on the pill
  F                    C           Am
I don't feel bad about letting you go
  G                   F
I just feel sad about letting you know


CHORUS:
F                          C
I don't want to change the world
                          Am
I'm not looking for a New England
        F                   E   G
Are you looking for another girl

F                          C
I don't want to change the world
                          Am
I'm not looking for a New England
        F                   C
Are you looking for another girl


VERSE:
  C
I loved the words you wrote to me
    G               Am
But that was bloody yesterday
  F                C        Am
I can't survive on what you send
G              F           C
Every time you need a friend


VERSE:
  C
I saw two shooting stars last night
  G                   Am
I wished on them, but they were only satellites
     F                C         Am
It's wrong to wish on space hardware
  G               F
I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care


CHORUS:
F                          C
I don't want to change the world
                          Am
I'm not looking for a New England
        F                   E   G
Are you looking for another girl?

F                          C
I don't want to change the world
                          Am
I'm not looking for a New England
        F                   Bb
Are you looking for another girl?


[Interlude in Bb]


Bb              D
Ooooooooo...


VERSE:
   D
My dreams were full of strange ideas
   A               Bm
My mind was set despite the fears
    G                D      Bm
But other things got in the way
  A                G         D
I never asked that boy to stay


VERSE:
D
Once upon a time at home
  A              Bm
I sat beside the telephone
G                      D       Bm
Waiting for someone to pull me through
        A                      G
When at last it didn't ring, I knew it wasn't you


CHORUS:
G                          D
I don't want to change the world
                          Bm
I'm not looking for a new England
        G                   F#  A
Are you looking for another girl

G                          D
I don't want to change the world
                          Bm
I'm not looking for a new England
        G
Are you looking for another

G                          D
I don't want to change the world
                          Bm
I'm not looking for a new England
        G                   D
Are you looking for another girl...


OUTRO:
G                   D
Looking for another girl
G                   D
Looking for another girl
G                   D
Looking for another girl.



CHORDS:
C     x32010
G     320033
Am    x02210
F     133211 or x33211
E     022100
Bb    688766 or xx0331
D     xx0232
A     x02220
Bm    x24432
F#    244322