A Boy From Nowhere chords by Tom Jones

Chords with lyrics

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

Intro:
F#F#  C#C#


Verse 1:
        F#F#
The nights grow cold
       BbmBbm       F#F#
My search for gold is leading nowhere
            BbmBbm
Whichever lonely road I take
      F#F#
It seems to go nowhere
    E MajorE               F#F#
It's a fight to survive just until tomorrow
       C#C#
How can I display what I know I'm worthy of
          F#F#
When they turn me away

Chorus 1:
                BbmBbm
The doors are closed to such as I
      F#F#
A augmentedA boy from nowhere
              BbmBbm       F#F#
But not to those who merely buy the right to go where
      E MajorE             F#F#
They'll be met with respect, not humiliation
         C#C#
A augmentedA man's place on earth
                   F#F#
I have come to realize is decided by birth


Pre-Chorus 1:

So what's the future
         C#C#
No matter where I go
        F#F#   E MajorE  A augmentedA
I will still belong in Andalusia
   E MajorE
Where we don't know where
            A augmentedA
The next penny's coming from
      C#C#
Something's wrong

Chorus 2:
       F#F#       C#C#
I'm bound to Spain, I won't remain
      F#F#
A augmentedA boy from nowhere
              C#C#
There has to be a place for me
      F#F#
And I must go there
     A augmentedA   E MajorE           C#C#  F#F#
I don't fantasize, unlike a million others
     G#G#   F#F#
Who must bow and scrape
    BB     C#C#
For my one means of escape
         F#F#
Is to flourish a cape


Verse 2:
        F#F#
I'll fight all odds
       C#C#       F#F#
And fight the Gods if they oppose me
              C#C#
I have to win, I won't give in
      F#F#        A augmentedA     E MajorE
No one who knows me would expect me to fail
         C#C#  F#F#
For the want of trying
   G#G#  F#F#
Not a man alive
    BB   C#C#
Had to beg or steal or fight
          F#F#
More than me to survive


Pre-Chorus 2:
  C#C#     F#F#
So what's the future
         BB
No matter where I go
    C#C#   F#F#   E MajorE  A augmentedA
I will still belong in Andalusia
              D MajorD
Where good, honest men grow weak
     E MajorE     A augmentedA
And the rich grow strong
C#C#     C#7C#7
Something's wrong


Chorus 3:
    F#F#      C#C#
Another dawn, another boy
      F#F#
A augmentedA boy from nowhere
          C#C#
My destiny will guarantee
      F#F#
And I must go there
    E MajorE     G# minorG#m         F#F#
It's a fight to survive just until tomorrow
     BB    F#F#  BB
One more mouth to feed
    C#C#          F#F#
And the way things are 'round here
      C#C#       F#F#
That's the last thing they need

Outro:
C#C#  F#F#