Hooverville And They Promised Us The World chords by The Christians

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
    A minorAm
Ooohh

Verse:
              G+G      FF       DmDm     G+G
The doubt of work sends the out of work man, To city a hope and a home
A minorAm              G+G     FF       DmDm      G+G
 When one door shuts here a-nother two slam, Yes he's homeless he's hopeless alone
A minorAm        G+G     FF        DmDm     G+G
 Row upon row of castles in Spain, make up a fool's para-dise
A minorAm                G+G      FF         DmDm      G+G
 The still born brainchild of a man with no brain, The ballot box baby that died

Chorus:
     C majorC   FF         G+G   DmDm  FF
(Oh Hooverville), and they promised us the world
     C majorC   FF         G+G   DmDm  FF         A minorAm
(In Hooverville), yes they promised us the world (Crying for the moon)

Verse:
A minorAm             G+G     FF            DmDm        G+G
 Now dirty faced children sit in the road, in the shanty town shacks they call home
A minorAm            G+G          FF         DmDm      G+G
 The comfort of knowing they won't be there long, Is the only comfort they know.
A minorAm                G+G      FF           DmDm      G+G
 A augmentedA young scream a young dream is lost in the night, Along with the young will to live,
A minorAm              G+G      FF          DmDm    G+G
 Along with the masses, that gave up the fight, A augmentedA fight for a reason to live,

Chorus:
     C majorC   FF         G+G   DmDm  FF
(Oh Hooverville), and they promised us the world
     C majorC   FF         G+G        DmDm     FF
(In Hooverville), said the streets were paved with silver and gold
     C majorC   FF         G+G  DmDm       FF
(Oh Hooverville), and they promised us a roof above our heads
     C majorC   FF         G+G       DmDm       FF          A minorAm
(In Hooverville), And like fools we believed every last word they said (Crying for the moon)

Bridge:
A minorAm   FF  G+G DmDm A minorAm              FF  G+G            DmDm
          and they promised us the wo-rld,  and they promised us a roof above our heads
A minorAm              FF  C majorC                 G+G
 and they promised us the wo-rld and like fools we believed every last word they said

                   Instrumental:
                    C majorC  FF G+G  FF G+G  C majorC  FF G+G  FF G+G
(I believed every last word you say...)

Chorus:
     C majorC   FF         G+G   DmDm  FF
(Oh Hooverville), and they promised us the world
     C majorC   FF         G+G        DmDm     FF
(In Hooverville), said the streets were paved with silver and gold
     C majorC   FF         G+G  DmDm       FF
(Oh Hooverville), and they promised us a roof above our heads
     C majorC   FF         G+G       DmDm       FF          A minorAm
(In Hooverville), And like fools we believed every last word they said (Crying for the moon)


Outro:
   C majorC     FF               A minorAm      DmDm   FF         G+G
Their hope is so high, when they arrive, Their hope is their only po-ssession in life (Crying for the moon)
C majorC      FF            A minorAm   DmDm     FF   C majorC FF A minorAm       DmDm  A minorAm
Another man dies, another man cries, Mr Poli-tician open up you e-y-es open up your eyes (Crying for the moon)
A minorAm   FF   G+G     DmDm            A minorAm       FF      C majorC G+G        C majorC FF G+G FF C majorC
Oh oh oooooh ooooh You took the whole of my life  mmm hmmm mmm  all of it   I'm not living    (Fade)