Lonely Street chords by Kansas

• Difficulty: Intermediate

🎸 Intro:

E5

🎸 Verse:
Em
Sometimes when I'm walking down this lonely street
Em                  D
Well, it sure don't seem like twenty years
Em
Since I went walking down this lonely street
Em                     D
And the smell of perfumed ladies filled the air

🎸 Verse:
   E5        E D     E5      G
This street ain't got no name, dead end is in the river
   E5            D  C D
And I lived where I hated life day by day
       E5        E D      E5      G
There wasn't nothing I could do  to shake a cold night shiver
     E5                D  C  D
'Cause to move up Lonely Street you had to have some say

🎸 Chorus:
A          G
Gambling is bad luck down on Lonely Street
F                        G
And it sure ain't no place to be when a man gets sore
E5                 E   D
You know I killed a man and I paid all I can
   E5
With twenty years on a chain gang
    G       C       E5
For the flesh and the blood on that jailhouse floor

🎸 Verse:
  E5            E D E5        E D
Sometimes when I'm walking down  this lonely street
   E5               D  C D
I get caught up in a dream that won't let me go
      E5              E D  E5     G
And as the bright lights flash up and down this lonely street
  E5            D  C  D
My mind rolls back the years long time ago

🎸 Chorus:
A               G
I see my baby stumblin' around with tears in her eyes
F               G
And as I reach out for her she falls on the floor
  E            E D    E
She mumbles through bloody lips about a black man, robber, raper
G        C         E5
And in my gut I know I got one to score
E5
Ay yeah!

🎸 Instrumental:
A G
A F     E5
  Take it baby!

E E D E G
A G A F
E E D E G
A G A F
F# D B C
D C G A
E

🎸 Bridge:
Em       Am Em
I need somebody
  Em
Oh yeah
C     D  Em
I need somebody yeah

🎸 Instrumental:
E5 E D
   I need it!!
E5 G
   I need it!!!
E5 C D
   I need it!!!
E5 E5 D
   Yeah I need it
E5 G
  Ahhhh yeah!!

E5 C5 D5
E5 A5 B5

🎸 Verse:
  E5         E D          E D E
The word was comin' down, down on Lonely Street
                    D    C D
That the black man was a dead man if he crossed my trail
E5 A5 B5 E5              E D E       E D E
     Every night I'd walk up and down this Lonely Street
              D  C D
I get stinkin' drunk, and always in jail

🎸 Chorus:
Am            G
 One night they threw me in with a man they called the mangler
F                      G
 He was caught on the street rapin' some old whore
  E5            E D
I remember he was quite proud of that
    E5
So half-crazed I shot him
G         C            Em  G
And I cried in the blood on that jailhouse floor
Em     C    Em
Oh, I don't want no more

Em Em7 Em
D Em