Key: D
Introduction:
D C
Rows of lights in a circle of steel
D G
Where you place your bets on a great big wheel
D C G
High windows flickerin' down through the snow
D
A time you know
D G A5
Sights and sounds of the people goin' 'round
C D
Everybody's in step with the season
D C
A child is born to a welfare case
D G
Where the rats run around like they own the place
D C G
The room is chilly, the building is old
D
That's how it goes
D G A5
The doctor's found on his welfare round
C D
And he comes and he leaves on the double
D C
Deck The Halls was the song they played
D G
In the flat next door where they shout all day
D C G
She tips her gin bottle back till it's gone
D
The child is strong
D G A5
A week, a day, they will take it away
C D
For they know about all her bad habits
D C
Christmas dawns and the snow lets up
D G
And the sun hits the handle of her heirloom cup
D C G
She hides her face in her hands for a while
D
Says look here child
D G A5
Your father's pride was his means to provide
C D
And he's servin' three years for that reason
D C
Rows of lights in a circle of steel
D G
Where you place your bets on a great big wheel
D C G
High windows flickerin' down through the snow
D
A time you know
D G A5
Sights and sounds of the people goin' 'round
C D
Everybody's in step with the season