Chords
Life In A Tenement Square

Key: A

Introduction:

difficulty
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Am      C      D      G  
                Accordion             Tin whistle lead:
Repeat intro chords
                     Am                      C                      D              G  
Well I kissed the day, I was on my way
                                Am                      C                      E  
From those cold grey blocks of stone
             Am                    C                         D                              G  
For seventeen years of squalor filled tears
        Am                            C         G            Am  
A time now with innocence lost
                     C                                                                      G  
As the sun split the room with its rays filled with gloom
  Am                                                      E7  
Turnin' all hope to despair
                     Am                         C                            D                                 G  
And the only thing left was to flee from the nest
                          Am                    C      G            Am  
That was life in a Tenement Square
Am      C      D      G  
I remember the song where the rats sang along
And danced for their daily bread
                                  G                                                              Am  
Grab what's left of the coal from the ole cubbyhole
                  G                                                                 Am  
These cinders need more to be a fire
                                G                                                                    Am  
While the ghosts of the soldiers that lived there before us
  C                                         G                                 Am  
Laugh with their guns by their sides
                                  C                                            G                                 Am  
I hear them laugh, with their guns by their sides
Solo: (play it messily!)