Chords with lyrics
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mescaleros
Song: Forbidden City
Written: Joe Strummer
Album: Rock Art and the X-Ray Style
Background: From the debut album released by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros in 1999.
Author: Richard Grosser ([email protected])
Tuning: Standard with Capo on 2nd fret
(Hence all chords are up two semitones, or a tone)
Chords:
C: ======= 332010
F7: ======= 131211
G: ======= 355433
Am: ======= 002210
Notes:
1. Totally revised from my previously posted 2008 version.
2. Where the chords are shown with triplets in brackets (e.g. x3)
...it's a quick, forceful(forte) staccato rhythmic chords.
Intro:
[Tom-Tom & Bongos, over organ riff, with arpeggiated chords]
| C majorC F7F7 G+G F7F7 |
Okay, dream of freedom...
| C majorC F7F7 G+G F7F7 | C majorC (x3)
Verse 1:
C majorC F7F7
Under the moon in the dragon room,
G7G7 F7F7 C majorC
Inside the mind of a soul confined.
C majorC F7F7
Don't talk about soon in the dragon room,
G+G F7F7 C majorC
Under the scream of a jet machine.
F7(x3) G(x3) F7(x3)
Who knows in the hills,
Am(x3) F7(x3) G(x3) G+G
Who knows when she will.
Chorus 1:
A minorAm F7F7
When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes out,
A minorAm F7F7
When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes out,
A minorAm F7F7
When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes out,
A minorAm G+G
When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes out,
C majorC F7F7 C majorC G(x3) F7(x3) C(x3)
...Oh, China, Yeah, China.
Verse 2:
C majorC F7F7
Gold silk in a loom in the dragon room,
G+G F7F7 C majorC
That silk that will be for the flag of the free.
F7(x3) G(x3) F7(x3)
Who knows in the hills,
Am(x3) F7(x3) G(x3) G+G
Who knows when she will.
Chorus 2:
A minorAm F7F7
When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes out,
A minorAm F7F7
When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes out,
A minorAm F7F7
When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes out,
A minorAm G+G
When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes out.
F7F7 C majorC F7F7 C majorC
Oh, China, Yeah, China.
F7F7 C majorC F7F7 C majorC
Oh, China, Yeah, China.
Instrumental:
G(x3) F7(x3)
Yeah, they got lots of towers,
(Organ riff over muffled gunfire)
A minorAm F7F7
' Never pushed someone so far.
A minorAm F7F7
Chorus 3:
A minorAm F7F7
When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes out,
A minorAm F7F7
When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes out,
A minorAm F7F7
When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes out,
A minorAm G+G
When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes out,
Coda:
C majorC
...Oh, Ch-i-na
(End)
Footnote:
This is an even more timely song, Joe! Especially, in 2012. :-R