NOTE: In the album track, the strumming is palm muted, and it sounds best if you palm mute pretty much every
chord in the song, and you might want to use 5th chords for the intro (G5, B5, C5, D5)
Have fun!
[Intro]
G Bm C D
G Bm C D
[Verse 1]
G Bm C D
In Recognition of a 100 million album sales
G Bm C D
In Recognition of your popularity
G Bm C D
You take your gaudy prize from people you said you despised
G Bm C G
You wear your self-respect upon your bended knee
[Chorus]
C D G
In spite of all your claims
C D G
It looks like you're just the same
C Cm Bm Em
As every other clown, who likes put the crown
C D G
Before or after their name
[Verse 2]
G Bm C D
In Recognition of your service to the working class
G Bm C D
In Recognition of your party loyalty
G Bm C D
You get an ermine robe and you declare when you are probed
G Bm C G
You only took it so the missus would be pleased
[Chorus]
C D G
In spite of all your claims
C D G
It looks like you're just the same
C Cm Bm Em
As every other clown, who likes put the crown
C D G
Before or after their name
[Bridge]
Bm Em
Ohhhhhh Vanity
C D
It gets them one by one
Bm Em
Patronage and Monarchy
C D
And all they entail, rarely frail
[Verse 3]
G Bm C D
In Recognition of your bravery up on the stage
G Bm C D
In Recognition of your bankability
G Bm C D
You get to wait in line with soldiers crippled by land mines
G Bm C G
And you think it's the yanks that don't get irony
[Chorus]
C D G
In spite of all your claims
C D G
It looks like you're just the same
C Cm Bm Em
As every other clown, who likes put the crown
C D G
Before or after their name
[Chorus]
C D G
In spite of all your claims
C D G
It looks like you're just the same
C Cm Bm Em
As every other clown, who likes put the crown
C D G
Before or after their name
G Bm C D
Their name
G Bm C D
Their name
G Bm C D
Their name
Source: https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/the_proclaimers/in_recognition_chords_2197749