The Big Issue chords by Chumbawamba

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

The Big Issue - Chumbawamba

Intro:
(acapella, with underlying chords)
     G        A
There are those spend the night
   C
Under bridges over by the river
G      A        C
Down in the park through the winter
       G      A
But there's a house that I know
    C
Safe and warm and no one ever goes there
G       A         C
Down where the priests Bless the wine

Verse 1:
G C
She's been born into the wrong time
G C
She keeps nonsense on her mind
G C
She's a poet, she's a builder
G C
She's as bored as bored can be
G C
She's a have not, she's a know all
G C
She knows just how to say yes
G C
She's skating frozen chaos
G C
'Til the no good gods are dead

Pre-Chorus 1:
G    A               C
   But sometimes in the dead of night
              G
Woken by the city lights
  A           C
She wonders how she keeps alive...

Chorus:
G          A
This is the girl who lost the house which
C
Came to the man who put up the rent and
G           A           C
Threw out the girl to Feather his own sweet home

Verse 2:
G C
She's a clueless social climber
G C
Likes the wrong side of the bed
G C
She's a pick-me-up and she's a drink-to-me
G C
In the company of friends
G C
She's tried every variation
G C
She's so common, she's so cold
G C
She's homesick for a future
G C
Can't stomach what she's told

Pre-Chorus 2:
G    A           C
   On every street in every town
            G
All her days are up and down
  A            C
At home among the lost-and-founds...

Chorus:
G          A
This is the girl who lost the house which
C
Came to the man who put up the rent and
G           A           C
Threw out the girl to Feather his own sweet home

Interlude:
Dm  Am  Dm  Am
(indistinct phased vocals)
Dm  Am  C  D

Chorus:
G          A
This is the girl who lost the house which
C
Came to the man who put up the rent and
G           A           C
Threw out the girl to Feather his own sweet home

Outro:
G          A
This is the girl who lost the house which
C
Came to the man who put up the rent and
G           A           C
Threw out the girl to Feather his own sweet home

(Intro comes in simultaneously)

     G        A
There are those spend the night
       C
Under bridges over by the river
G      A        C
Down in the park through the winter
       G      A
But there's a house that I know
    C
Safe and warm and no one ever goes there
G       A         C
Down where the priests Bless the wine