The Card Cheat chords by The Clash

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

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

🎸 Interlude:
 C majorC

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

🎸 Interlude:
 C majorC FF C majorC G+G  FF E minorEm G+G

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

🎸 Outro:
C majorC FF C majorC G+G  FF E minorEm G+G