Battle Of The Beanfield
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Written by The Levellers, from their second album "Levelling The Land".
Trans. by Simon Phillips (cs5133@ccub.wlv.ac.uk, cs5133@scitsc.wlv.ac.uk).
Minor corrections to lyrics and layout, and verse 2 added by Alan Bigham, 1/1/00.
Here is Battle of the Beanfield, it uses 5th chords !!, the best chords.
The ones used in the song are E5, D5, and C5 for the intro which are : -
E5 D5 C5
X X X X X X X X X
| O | | | | Fret 7 | O | | | | Fret 5 | O | | | | Fret 3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | O O | | | | O O | | | | O O | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
And nasty horrible barre chords for the chorus. They are : -
Em D C
X X X X X X
| O | | | | Fret 7 | O | | | | Fret 5 | O | | | | Fret 3
| | | | O | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | O O | | | | O O O | | | O O O |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
The song is in 4/4 timing and these chords are played for 7 bars, then the vocals come in ....
VERSE I
D5 E5 D5 C5 D5
I thought I heard something calling me
E5 D5 C5 D5
I've seen the pictures on TV
E5 D5 C5 D5
And I made up my mind that I'd go and see
E5 D5 C5 D5
With my own eyes
E5 D5 C5 D5
It didn't take too long to hitch a ride
E5 D5 C5 D5
With a guy going south to start a new life
E5 D5 C5 D5
Passed the place where my friend died
E5 D5 C5 D5
Two years ago
Em D C D
Down the three-o-three, at the end of the road
Em D C D Em D
Flashing lights, exclusion zones, and it made me think
C D Em D C D
It's not just the stones that they're guarding
CHORUS
Em D C D
Hey, hey now can't you see?
Em D C
There's nothing here that you can call free
Em D C
They're getting their kicks, they're laughing at
D Em D C D
You and me
Em D C D x4
VERSE II
As the sun rose on the beanfield
They came like wolf on the fold
And no, they didn't give a warning
They took their bloody toll
I seen a pregnant woman
Lying in blood of her own
I seen her children crying
As the police tore apart their home
And no, they didn't need a reason
It's what your votes condone
It seems they were committing treason
By trying to live on the road
CHORUS X2
Fiddle solo
CHORUS
For all you lightwights that don't know what it is about ...
The lovely police ... Nice men and women that they are decided
that a certain number of peace loving individuals should not
be allowed access to a festival ground near stone hendge....
There had been a festival on the site for years (untill 1983
that is ... ) when the police beat everyone crapless ..
very nice of them if you ask me ... and decided that the
festival goers which actually just a bunch of annoying hippies
to be pushed around when ever a bored policeman/woman had
nothing better to do...
and so they did exactly that ... and ever since there has been
no free festival there... (but one VERY close to it)...
Isn't it nice to know that you live in a free country ..
BML.....
Have fun working it out .. you'll have to listen to the song to
get the correct timings ... mainly because i am just to lazy to
bother writing it out in tab ... oh well .. students eh?? who needs
them....
bye...
simon
