Verse:
GDEmEm7
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1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
I was born on a close street down a hill
Mauve and so did my hands Oh and the
FCB/C
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1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
The trees that lined the street could sense the winter change they felt the
Sound… There was no sound and I’m freezing in the
EmEm7CB/C
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1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
chill they ducked and dived and so we knew that they were alive
sun Nobody cares to hide the dopeheads and the suicides
1st time through
FCB/C rep. 2X
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1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
Until the year the silver rain came down the trees turned
2nd time through
FC rep. 4X
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1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
Cause everyone freezes in the sun
Verse 2:
Basically, the same structure of the first Verse, but the order of the chords is
flipped. Each line below = 1 bar
EmEm7
I kicked around with
CB/C
Harry who lived near Salisbury Plain
F
He worked on the cathedral there
CB/C
every now and again he worked with
GD
stone, carved with stone
EmEm7
Odd jobs on the telephone
F
One sunny day he was sent to the
CB/C
Houses of Parliament
EmEm7
chippin' away at gargoyles
CB/C
Under the blistering sun
F
He carved out "Maggie Sucks" on the
CB/C
backs of every one
GD
And so in five-hundred years
EmEm7
There's gonna be some history here
FC
After it all subsides in the sun
Chorus:
Play the riff on the C chord from the end of the first Verse 4X, and over the last
two times through, sing:
And it's fallin' away
Verse:
This one is the same chord changes from the first Verse.
GD
Another day, another loon
EmEm7A new pied piper calls the
F
Tune so blow it up, watch it explode
CB/C
Noah's ark on overload
EmEm7
Wrestle with the results and
CB/C
throw 'em round the ring
F
Everybody knows there
CB/C
ain't no rules in wrestling
GD
The referee's a dupe
EmEm7
Who only old ladies and children be-
F
-lieve,
CB/C
I'm getting up now to leave
EmEm7
I'll go back to that street someday
CB/C
The air's better there anyway
FC
Though the trees are still gonna freeze in the sun
Chorus/Outro:
Use the Riff from the first Chorus, but on F where noted.
And it's fallin' away
F
And I don't wanna know
C
I'm glad I don't know
GDEm
What's draggin' it un der
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.