IntroFCFCAmDGFCFCAmDGVerse 1FCFCAmDG
It’s a late Friday night, the street lamps are shining up in my-- bedroom.
FCFCAmDG
There’s a mighty big fight between the thunder and lightning, I wonder who-- will lose.
E7AmFG
There’s a party balloon and I ain’t been invited.
E7AmFG
Hey, look at that moon, there ain’t nothing like it.
CE7FD
All grey and gold
CGFCFC
Down on Jubilee Road.
Verse 2FCFCAmDG
Can see Mr. Bouvier, in his two-bedroom basement in his purple dungarees.
FCFCAmDG
He’s grumpy and he’s grey, always sweeping off the pavement cigarettes and leaves.
E7AmFG
His kid’s up in China and his wife’s up in heaven.
E7AmFG
Always I wave, ‘cause he’s got this expression
CE7FD
That he’s so-- alone
CGFCFC
Down on Jubilee Road.
[Refrain]
AmDGC
Oh-- I think tomorrow night I will knock on his door and hear all about his life,
E7AmA#
Because I think that’s the kind of thing that I might like when I’m old,
F
When I’m old.
Verse 3FCFCAmDG
There’s Max and there’s Maude in the house by the station, call them my-- best friends.
FCFCAmDG
But he drinks like a horse, and she don’t appreciate it, all this money he seems to spend.
E7AmFG
I can hear them tonight; he can’t find no vocation.
E7AmFG
And the neighbours they sigh, at that new generation
CE7AmD
Just getting stoned
CGFCFC
Down on Jubilee Road.
[Refrain]
AmDGC
Oh, I think in the summertime I will call you up make everything alright,
E7AmA#
And we’ll fill up our cups with that bitter wine, and I’ll show you,
F
I’ll show you..
Verse 4FCFCAmDG
The mice are still here, your wardrobe’s still empty, and the walls are still paper thin.
FCFCAmDG
And the neighbours my dear, well I think they still hate me for all these songs I endlessly sing.
E7AmFG
Because it ain’t no perfect street, I ain’t no perfect lover,
E7AmFG
And life it is brief, I don’t think we get no other.
CE7AmD
Come back home,
CGAmD
Down on Jubilee Road.
CGFC
Down on Jubilee Road
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.