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