Forbidden City chords by Joe Strummer And The Mescaleros

Chords with lyrics

URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mescaleros
Song: Forbidden City
Written: Joe Strummer
Album: Rock Art and the X-Ray Style

Background: From the debut album released by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros in 1999.
Author: Richard Grosser ([email protected])

Tuning: Standard with Capo on 2nd fret
(Hence all chords are up two semitones, or a tone)

Chords:
C:  ======= 332010
F7: ======= 131211
G:  ======= 355433
Am: ======= 002210

Notes:
1. Totally revised from my previously posted 2008 version.
2. Where the chords are shown with triplets in brackets (e.g. x3)
...it's a quick, forceful(forte) staccato rhythmic chords.

Intro:
[Tom-Tom & Bongos, over organ riff, with arpeggiated chords]
| C majorC  F7F7 G+G  F7F7 |
Okay, dream of freedom...
| C majorC  F7F7 G+G  F7F7 | C majorC (x3)

Verse 1:
C majorC              F7F7
Under the moon in the dragon room,
G7G7          F7F7  C majorC
Inside the mind of a soul confined.
C majorC                  F7F7
Don't talk about soon in the dragon room,
G+G           F7F7    C majorC
Under the scream of a jet machine.
F7(x3) G(x3) F7(x3)
Who knows in the hills,
Am(x3) F7(x3) G(x3) G+G
Who knows when she will.


Chorus 1:
A minorAm                          F7F7
When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes out,
A minorAm                          F7F7
When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes out,
A minorAm                          F7F7
When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes out,
A minorAm                          G+G
When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes out,
    C majorC      F7F7 C majorC G(x3) F7(x3) C(x3)
...Oh, China, Yeah, China.

Verse 2:
C majorC                 F7F7
Gold silk in a loom in the dragon room,
G+G                F7F7     C majorC
That silk that will be for the flag of the free.
F7(x3) G(x3) F7(x3)
Who knows in the hills,
Am(x3) F7(x3) G(x3) G+G
Who knows when she will.


Chorus 2:
A minorAm                          F7F7
When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes out,
A minorAm                          F7F7
When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes out,
A minorAm                          F7F7
When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes out,
A minorAm                          G+G
When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes out.
F7F7 C majorC   F7F7  C majorC
Oh, China, Yeah, China.
F7F7 C majorC   F7F7  C majorC
Oh, China, Yeah, China.


Instrumental:
G(x3) F7(x3)
Yeah, they got lots of towers,
(Organ riff over muffled gunfire)
A minorAm             F7F7
' Never pushed someone so far.
A minorAm             F7F7


Chorus 3:
A minorAm                          F7F7
When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes out,
A minorAm                          F7F7
When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes out,
A minorAm                          F7F7
When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes out,
A minorAm                          G+G
When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes out,


Coda:
    C majorC
...Oh, Ch-i-na

(End)

Footnote:
This is an even more timely song, Joe! Especially, in 2012. :-R