Lonely Street chords by Kansas

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

🎸 Intro:

E5

🎸 Verse:
Em
Sometimes when I'm walking down this lonely street
Em                                   D
Well, it sure don't seem like twenty years
Em
Since I went walking down this lonely street
Em                                          D
And the smell of perfumed ladies filled the air

🎸 Verse:
     E5               E  D          E5            G
This street ain't got no name, dead end is in the river
      E5                       D   C  D
And I lived where I hated life day by day
             E5               E  D           E5            G
There wasn't nothing I could do   to shake a cold night shiver
          E5                               D    C    D
'Cause to move up Lonely Street you had to have some say

🎸 Chorus:
A                    G
Gambling is bad luck down on Lonely Street
F                                                G
And it sure ain't no place to be when a man gets sore
E5                                 E     D
You know I killed a man and I paid all I can
     E5
With twenty years on a chain gang
        G             C             E5
For the flesh and the blood on that jailhouse floor

🎸 Verse:
    E5                        E D  E5                E D
Sometimes when I'm walking down    this lonely street
      E5                              D   C  D
I get caught up in a dream that won't let me go
           E5                            E D    E5          G
And as the bright lights flash up and down this lonely street
   E5                        D    C    D
My mind rolls back the years long time ago

🎸 Chorus:
A                             G
I see my baby stumblin' around with tears in her eyes
F                              G
And as I reach out for her she falls on the floor
    E                        E D        E
She mumbles through bloody lips about a black man, robber, raper
G               C                 E5
And in my gut I know I got one to score
E5
Ay yeah!

🎸 Instrumental:
A G
A F         E5
    Take it baby!

E E D E G
A G A F
E E D E G
A G A F
F# D B C
D C G A
E

🎸 Bridge:
Em             Am Em
I need somebody
   Em
Oh yeah
C          D    Em
I need somebody yeah

🎸 Instrumental:
E5 E D
      I need it!!
E5 G
      I need it!!!
E5 C D
      I need it!!!
E5 E5 D
      Yeah I need it
E5 G
    Ahhhh yeah!!

E5 C5 D5
E5 A5 B5

🎸 Verse:
    E5                 E D                    E D E
The word was comin' down, down on Lonely Street
                                        D       C  D
That the black man was a dead man if he crossed my trail
E5 A5 B5 E5                            E D E              E D E
         Every night I'd walk up and down this Lonely Street
                            D    C  D
I get stinkin' drunk, and always in jail

🎸 Chorus:
Am                       G
  One night they threw me in with a man they called the mangler
F                                            G
 He was caught on the street rapin' some old whore
    E5                        E  D
I remember he was quite proud of that
        E5
So half-crazed I shot him
G                  C                       Em   G
And I cried in the blood on that jailhouse floor
Em          C       Em
Oh, I don't want no more

Em Em7 Em
D Em