"Algunos cantautores, cuando tocan se imaginan que son Bob Dylan; yo me imagino que soy The Clash"
Billy Bragg, nacido en Barking, Essex-Inglaterra el 20 de diciembre de 1957, es un cantautor izquierdista muy vinculado al movimiento obrero.
Formó parte del llamado anti-Folk de los años 80. Es un artista influido tanto por el punk-rock (en especial The Clash, se le conoció como el 'one-man-Clash'), como por los cantautores comprometidos, en especial
¡Cuatro años de duro trabajo!Este mes de mayo cumplimos cuatro años al aire. Seguimos trabajando en la difusión de este maravilloso instrumento, ¡gracias por participar en nuestra historia!
#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## >From [email protected] (Francois Rousseau) Subject: AOTW: Billy Bragg: Sin City Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 05:57:04 GMT
Sin City
Intro: GDGCGDCG
GD This old town 's filled with sin GC It'll swallow you in GD If you got some money to burn GD Take it home right away GC You've got three years to pay GDGG7 The city is waiting his turn
(chorus) CDGG7 This old earthquake 's gonna leave me in the poor house CGD It seems like this old town 's insane CDGC On the thirty-first floor, a gold plated door GDGGDGCGDCG Won't keep out the lord's burning rain
GDGC The scientist say, it will all wash away GD But we don't, believe anymore GD So we got our recruit GC And a green mohair suit GDGG7 So please show your I.D. at the door
(chorus)
GDGC A friend came around, tried to clean up this town GD His ideas made some people mad GDGC But he thrusted his crowd, so he spoke right out loud GDGG7 And they lost the best friend they had