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The Anglo-Saxons
by The Mountain Goats
tabbed by Jonathan Bliss
      and Andy Moskowitz


john: "we'd like to dedicate this song to our friends, the former

inhabitants of the british isles!"

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 they used to paint their bodies blue
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 a couple of them might be distantly related to you.
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 according to ceasar they shaved their entire bodies,
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 except for the upper lip and the head

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 yeah, the anglo-saxons
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 yeah, the anglo-saxons
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 a sub-literate bunch of guys,
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 though some sources say otherwise.
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 yeah, the anglo-saxons

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 yeah, they were men on a mission,
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 preserving their poetry by an oral tradition
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 yeah, oral tradition is all you get
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 until saint augustine brought them the alphabet.

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 yeah, the anglo-saxons
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 yeah, the anglo-saxons,
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 in 1065 they were ragin'
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 but 1066 brought the norman invasion.
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 yeah, the anglo-saxons

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