Gaslight Street

(início)

INTRO: G Am C
#1.
G                                            C
There's a place on the edge of town (edge of town)
Am             C         D            G
where the kids all hang around (hang around.)
G                                    Am
Cobbled streets and terraced houses, window boxes
     D
all around.
C                     D                    Em
It's never changed in sixty years and it's tumbling
down.
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It's never really know by name, it's called Gaslight
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Street, Gaslight Street.
#2.
G                                               C
In the evening when the sun goes down (sun goes down)
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and there ain't nobody else around (else around.)
G                                              C
The lamp lighter walks down the street, illumination,
A    D
indiscreet.
C                    D                     Em
It doesn't have much effect, it seems he's wasting his
time.
C                    D                  E
The lamp light don't shine so bright on Gaslight Street,
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Gaslight Street.
BRIDGE:
B              G            D        C
Every night at nine there's children playing around the
Bm    D
street.
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Trying to dodge their parents when they call them in to
D  C  G     C
go to sleep.
#3.
G                                  C         Am
Monday morning and as a rule (as a rule) the place is quiet
               C       Em     G
they're all at school (all at school.)
G                                        Am
Lines of washing hang across the street, a weary policeman
C         D
walks his beat.
C                     D                    Em
It's never changed in sixty years and it's tumbling down.
C                 D                         E
It's never really know by name, it's called Gaslight
        C        G     Em D C G
Street, Gaslight Street.
OUTRO:
G
Hmmm-hmmm-hmmm-hmmm-hmm-hmm-(hmm-hmmm-hmm)
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La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la (aaaahhh-oooooooo)(Fade.)