Bb              F               Eb
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[Verse 1]
Bb
Stone Age brought you speech, farms, the wheel and fire.
Bb                                                                      Eb                      Bb
Then metal was explored which meant we could make swords to kill, and build empires.
F               Eb                      F               Eb
Think Ancient Egypt was nicer? Pharaoh’s tombs, lovely shrines?
Bb
But some were living graves for hundreds of poor slaves and pig’s eye was our cure for the blind.
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Greek civilisation our creation, drama and philosophy.
Gm                      F                       Eb                      F
But Sparta praised lying; celebrated dying and Hippocrates drank wee.


[Chorus 1]
F       Bb
We’re History.
Bb              Gm
We brought you bloodshed.
Eb                      Bb
Greek excursions to battle the Persians.
Cm                      F
Disembowelling our dead.
Bb              F               Dm              Eb
Together we made the world a little bit grim.
Eb              Cm
We’re History.
F               Bb
Could be fairly dim.


[Verse 2]
Bb
We Romans brought you roads and public medicine,
Bb                                                              Eb              Bb
Gladiator fighting, feeding men to lions, burning Christians. That kind of thing, you know.
F               Eb                      F               Eb
Then came the Middle Ages; Saxons, Normans, Vikings, Celts,
Bb
A time of invasion, feudalism, famine, Black Death, bubos and welts.
Eb                      F
1066 saw Harold in a fix as William conquered all.
Gm                      F                       Eb                      F
What was the bettin’ an arrow in his retina would lead to his downfall?


[Chorus 2]
F       Bb
We’re History.
Bb              Gm
We brought invasion and strife.
Eb                              Bb                      Cm                      F
We attacked monasteries, said “Give us gold, please”, then we took your life.
Bb              F               Dm              Eb
Our crusades meant slaughter wherever we’d go.
Eb              Cm
We’re History
F               Bb
Was it pretty? No.


[Bridge]
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Ab
Tudor, Stuart, Georgian monarchs next in line
Bb
Brought progress in science and art.
Ab
Also beheadings, burning, civil war
Bb
Breed an economy, for a start.


[Chorus 3]
F       Bb
We’re History.
Bb              Gm
We gave you plague and disease.
Eb                               Bb                      Cm                              F
Travelled, found the Incas, spread smallpox in a blink and brought them to their knees.
Bb              F               Dm              Eb
Dogs, cats and the French blamed for plague along the way.
Eb              Cm
We’re History.
F               Bb
Not such happy days.


[Verse 3]
Eb
Victorian technology went hand-in-hand with poverty,
F
Kids up chimneys and down mines.
Gm                              F
Improvements to the world did pick up despite some violent hiccups;
Eb                      F
Two World Wars, millions died.


[Chorus 4]
G               C
We’re History.
Am                      G
Our times smelly and gory.
G       F               C
We reigned over you and told you what to do
Dm              G
And that is this story.
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Thought we were amazing though you may quibble.
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We’re History and we made it horri-------------ble.
G               C
We’re History!