Southside Tenements chords by David Knopfler

David Knopfler - Southside Tenements


INTRO: G A D  G A D  G A D  G A D  G A G

               A          D         G
London City has Southside Tenements
                   A               D
Rusty cans, broken cars, cracked cement
G                          A                 D
Someone blocked the drain, someone smashed a vent
     G            A             D    G A D   G A D   G A G
In a Southside, a Southside Tenement


               A          D         G
London City has Southside Tenements
                          A      D     G
Flags are flying for some royal event
                                  A          D
There's people hanging out of the St. Paul's windows
G                A                   D
Lining up on the pavement and on the High Street
                           G
And the City Road and from Crossfields
        A             D    G A D   G A D   G A G
And the Southside Tenement

                   A             D      G
Well I get restive, and I got to leave
                                       A              D        G
I'm taking the shortcut home, past the arches, by the railway
                    D           A              D
Where an old friend swears that maybe he could save me
      G          A     D
For a crazy boy, he's okay
      G            A              D
For a Southside, a Southside cavalcade


BRIDGE:
         G            A           D
Hear the haunted, the haunted serenader
     Em     G         A                  D
He's just a memory, a-fading on The Broadway
A               G
Fading from the Southside
    A             D
The Southside Tenement


INSTRUMENTAL: G  A  D   G  A  D   G  A  G
  Sax Break:  A  D  G   A  D  G   A  D  G  D
             G  A  D    G  A  D    G  A  D  G


            A              D     G
Sleepwalking to The Oxford Arms
              A           D      G
No-one noticed warehouse alarms
                         A                   D
Slamming dominoes in the back bar, safe from harm
       G              A             D
By the Southside, the Southside Tenement
       G              A             D    G A D   G A G
By the Southside, the Southside Tenement


               A          D         G
London City has Southside Tenements
                                               A                 D     G
Cops saying that my kids are thieves, and they say "The Bill are bent"
                   A            D
Well, I dunno, I'm only sharing rent
     G            A             D     G
In a Southside, a Southside Tenement
  A             D    G  A  G
A Southside Tenement


               A          D         G
London City has Southside Tenements
                     A                 D
Broken parts, broken hearts, cracked cement
     G                     A                        D
Some spray-can words 'bout love and gold - remember them?
        G              A           D
And the madman crying "Nobody's condemned"
         G          A             D
Not even Southside, Southside Tenement
        G      A             D
And I remember Southside Tenement


OUTRO:   (## repeat and fade to end ##)
       G A D   G A D   G A D   G A D   G A D   G A D