Prodigal Blues chords by Billy Idol

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key of D

♫ Intro:
D C G D C G D


♫ Verse:
D
Riding my life
D
Like a run-a-way train
D                         C     G
Moving from one track to that
D

Howling, crying,
D
Screaming at the moon
D        C               G
Only my voice came back
D        C               G
Only the echo came back
D
When I was a boy
D                        C G
Daddy told me Grow tall
D
Yes and, Billy, don't crawl"
D
Taught me how to ride
D
Set me out on my own
D     C               G D
And I never came back

♫ Pre-Chorus:
D           C
And yes I'd do it again
G           D
Oh wouldn't you
D        C
Yeah I'd do it again
G               D
A-huh oh yeah
C
Do it again
G
Baby
D
Wouldn't you?

♫ Chorus:
D         C     G
Remember when I lied
D             C      G
Just when you needed me
D         C          G
Now I sit alone and cry
C             G             D
'Cause now I believe in mercy
A               G
Remember when I lied
D                    G
Just when you needed me
C  G          D
I believe in mercy

♫ Verse:
D
Riding walking
D
Looking so cool
D
Guess I crossed
D             C      G
Over the borderline
D
Treated like a dunce
D
Who just can't read
D      C             G
Did I fool me too?

♫ Pre-Chorus:
D           C
And yes I'd do it again
G           D
Oh wouldn't you
D        C
Yeah I'd do it again
G               D
A-huh oh yeah
C
Do it again
G
Baby
D
Wouldn't you?

♫ Chorus:
D         C     G
Remember when I lied
D             C      G
Just when you needed me
D         C          G
Now I sit alone and cry
C             G             D
'Cause now I believe in mercy
A               G
Remember when I lied
D             A       G
Now that you needed me
C  G          D
I believe in mercy
G   C         G
Yes I believe in mercy

♫ Instrumental:
D G D A G D
D G D A G D

♫ Verse:
G             D
I said "Come here"
D            C
Look into my face
C   D
And hear into my heart
G      D
Hesitation
D
Could re-arrange
C   D
The other side
D              G
To your love
D
Take hold now baby
C             D
And take what other
D                   G
Lovers have not
G         D
Times is changing
D                 C
Will they re-arrange
D                      G
The other side to your love

♫ Bridge:
D
No-woah woah woah
D
Yeah
D
Wooooo
D
(Come home
D Am  C D Am C D Am
C                    D
Here he is impatient one
D
Come home
D
Come home
C        D
Tell the story

♫ Outro:
D
Come home
C
Here he is
C             D
The impatient one
D
Come home
D          G
To claim a glory
D
Prodigal son
D    C
Come home
C        D
Prodigal bum
D    G
Come home
A        D     A C D
Prodigal son
C        D
Prodigal son
D
Come home
C           G
To claim a glory
D
Prodigal son
D
Come home
C        D
Prodigal son
D
Come home
C       D
Here he comes
D
Yeah that prodigal son
D
Ooooh
D
He's the one
C
To tell his story
D
C'mon to tell his story
D
Tell his story
C            D
To claim his glory