The Card Cheat chords by The Clash

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

🎸 Chorus:
 C
There's a solitary man cryin', "Hold me"
 C
It's only because he's a'lonely
 C
And if the keeper of time runs slowly
 C
He won't be alive for long!
 F                               C
If he only had time to tell of all of the things he planned
 G
With a card up his sleeve, what would he achieve?
 F Em G
It means nothin'
 C
To the opium dens and the barroom gin
 C
In the Belmont chair playing violin
 C
The gambler's face cracks into a grin
 C
As he lays down the king of spades
 F
But the dealer just stares
 F                     C
"There's something wrong here", he thinks
 G
The gambler is seized and forced to his knees
 F Em G
And shot dead

🎸 Interlude:
 C

🎸 Verse:
 F
He only wanted more time
 F           C
Away from the darkest door
 G
But his luck it gave in
 G
As the dawn light crept in
 F Em G
And he lay on the floor
 C
From the Hundred Year War to the Crimea
 C
With a lance and a musket and a Roman spear
 C
To all of the men who have stood with no fear
 C
In the service of the King
 F
Before you met your fate
 F            C
Be sure you did not forsake
 G
Your lover
 F Em G
May not be around anymore

🎸 Interlude:
 C F C G  F Em G

🎸 Verse:
 C
There's a solitary man cryin', "Hold me"
 C
It's only because he's a'lonely
 C
And if the keeper of time runs slowly
 C
He won't be alive for long!

🎸 Outro:
C F C G  F Em G