***London You're A Lady - by Shane MacGowan
from the albums "Peace & Love"

London You're A Lady - as perfomed by The Pogues

Melody:
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Intro Backing Guitar: [C,C,C,C] [F,F,G,G] [C,F,C,G] [C,F,C,G]


   C
Ah London you're a lady
                   F G
Laid out before my eyes
     C
Your golden heart is pulsing
  Am                    F
Between your scarred up thighs
     C
Your eyes are full of sadness
                      F G
Red busses skirt your hem
     C
Your head-dress is a ring of lights
      Am               F
But I would not follow them
     F
Your architects were madmen
     C                 F  G
Your builders sane but drunk
 C
Among your faded jewels
      Am             F
Shine acid house and punk

    C
You are a scarlet lady
			  F  G
Your streets run red with blood
      C
Oh my darling they have used you
    Am               F
And covered you with mud
       C
It was deep down in your womb my love
		    F G
I drank my quart of sin
      C
While chinamen played cards and draughts
    Am		        F
And knocked back mickey finns
     F
Your piss is like a river
    C		      F G
Its scent is beer and gin
     C
Your hell is in the summer
        Am             F
And you blossom in the spring

   Am              F
September is your purgatory
C                 Am/G#/Am
Christmas is your heaven
             F                   C
And when the stinking streets of summer
                   F G
Are washed away by rain
       C
At the dark end of a lonely street
       Am                  F
That's where you lose your pain
     C         F          C     F
'Tis then your eyes light up my love
    C
And sparkle once again

Melody (2x) alone

C  F G  C F G   C F G C (3x)