Artist: | FRT Set List No 1. (English) |
User: | Fhrei Tolito |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
Abusive: | |
Comment: | - |
[Intro]
(possible chords on pluckung intro)
|| Bb6 | Bbadd#11 | G6 (no3)
|| C ||%
[Verse 1]
C G/B Am
I am just a poor boy though my story’s seldom told
G
I have squandered my resistance
G7 C
For a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises
G/B Am G Fmaj7
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear
|| C || G ||% || G7 || C ||% ||% ||%
And disregards the rest hmhmhm hmhmhmhm
[Verse 2]
C G/B Am
When I left my home and my family, I was no more than a boy
G
In the company of strangers
G7 C
In the quiet of the railway station, running scared
G/B Am G Fmaj7
Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters
C
Where the ragged people go
G Fmaj7 || C ||%
Looking for the places only they would know
[Hook]
Am Em
Lie la lie, lie la la la la la lie
Am G || C ||% ||% ||%
Lie la lie, lie la la la la la lie, la la la la lie
[Verse 3]
C G/B Am
Asking only workman’s wages I come looking for a job
G
But I get no offers
G7 C
Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh’ Avenue
G/B Am G Fmaj7
I do declare, there were times when I was so lonesome
C || G ||% || G7 || C ||%
I took some comfort there, la la la la la
[Solo]
|| C ||% |% | G/B || Am || G ||% || G7 ||%
|| C ||% |% | G/B || Am || G || Fmaj7 ||%
| C |%[wlkdwn] || G || Fmaj7 || C ||%
[Hook]
Am Em
Lie la lie, lie la la la la la lie
Am G || C ||% ||% ||%
Lie la lie, lie la la la la la lie, la la la la lie
[Verse 4]
C G/B Am
Then I’m laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone
G G7 || C ||%
Going home, where the New York City winters aren’t bleeding me
|| Em ||% || Am ||% || G ||% || G7 || C ||% ||% ||%
Leading me Going home
[Verse 5]
C G/B Am
In the clearing stands the boxer and a fighter by his trade
G G7
And he carries a reminder of every glove that laid him down
C G/B Am
Or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame
G Fmaj7
I am leaving, I am leaving
|| C || G || Fmaj7 || C ||%
But the fighter still remains, hmhmhmhm
[Hook] [x8 (on 7 and 8 feels much heavier)
Am Em
//: Lie la lie, lie la la la la la lie
Am G
Lie la lie, lie la la la la la lie :: //
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[Use this on the 8th]
Am G
Lie la lie, lie la la la la la lie,
C [outro]
la la la la lie
[Outro]
|| C ||% |% | G/B || Am || G ||% || G7 ||%
|| C ||% |% | G/B || Am || G || Fmaj7 ||%
| C |%[wlkdwn] || G || Fmaj7 || C ||%