I Guess I Planted chords by Billy Bragg

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

I Guess I Planted Words: Guthrie. Music: Bragg 1997:


Verse 1:
E        F#m
I guess I planted some long lonesome seed of a song
C#m  Bm        A
Way down inside me long ago
E            F#m
And now I can't remember when it was
C#m            Bm        A
But it joined up with the rest of them and grows
E             A
It's such a little song it don't compare
E               A
With all your big ones you hear everywhere
E              C#m    B G#m
But when it dawns way in the back of your mind
  C#m     Bm       A
The big ones are made up of the little kind

Chorus:
E  A  E     A
Union Song. Union Battled.
E   C#m F#m        B   E
All added up. Won us all what we got now.
E  A  E     A
Union Song. Union Battled.
E   C#m F#m        B   E
All added up. Won us all what we got now.


Verse 2:
E           F#m
I can't even start to look around here
C#m  Bm    A
Without hearing this song
E            F#m
And seeing all of us first separated,
C#m  Bm    A
Hurt, apart and afraid
E          A
And hungry for the union
E          A
And so we kept on
E          C#m    B    G#m
Singing and working, fighting till we got it.
C#m        Bm     A
And this is the big union song I guess I hear.


Chorus:
E  A  E     A
Union Song. Union Battled.
E  C#m    F#m      E
All added up. Won us all what we got now.
E  A  E     A
Union Song. Union Battled.
E  C#m    F#m      E
All added up. Won us all what we got now.


Bridge:
A G#m F#m B E
F#m   C#m Bm A
E   F#m   C#m Bm A


Verse 3:
E        F#m   A
We fought there at your place
C#m  Bm        A
We fought there on your ship
E            F#m
And I guess if you missed out on
C#m       Bm or G#m
The fight for our union,
   C#m     B#m      A      E     A
You missed out on one awful big step ....... us people took.


Chorus:
E  A  E     A
Union Song. Union Battled.
E  C#m    F#m      E
All added up. Won us all what we got now.
E  A  E     A
Union Song. Union Battled.
E  C#m    F#m      E
All added up. Won us all what we got now.



edited by Johnny10string from a transcription by: Justin Voss,