Old Town chords by Phil Lynott

Chords with lyrics

Song: Old town
Written and performed by: Phil Lynott
Track on: The Philip Lynott Album

Transcribed by Jose Kooyman ([email protected])

This song by Thin Lizzy's frontman Phil Lynott is from his first solo
album. Although the song consists mainly of keyboards, drums and bass
guitar, it sounds very well on just an acoustic guitar.
These are the chords (and two little riffs) I use:

C: x-3-2-0-1-0
Cmaj7: x-3-2-0-0-0
Am7: x-0-2-0-1-0 (sometimes during the verse I play: x-0-2-0-1-3)
Am7/G: 3-0-2-0-1-0
F: 1-3-3-2-1-1
Dm: x-x-0-2-3-1
G7: 3-2-0-0-0-1
Am: x-0-2-2-1-0
E: 0-2-2-1-0-0
Am2: x-0-2-2-0-0
X: 0-3-3-2-0-0 (I don't know the name of this chord)

riff 1:
e-|-----0-|
b-|-1-3---|
g-|-------|
d-|-------|
a-|-------|
e-|-------|

riff 2:
e-|---0-4-5-|
b-|-1-------|
g-|---------|
d-|---------|
a-|---------|
e-|---------|


Lyrics and chords:

The..
I ..

[intro]
4x C majorC (alter with Cmaj7Cmaj7)

C majorC      Am7Am7
The ..
       Am7/GAm7/G
She ..
       FF
She ..
DmDm  G7G7      C majorC (alter with Cmaj7Cmaj7)
This ..
C majorC       Am7Am7
She's ..
      Am7/GAm7/G
And so..
    FF
All is lost
DmDm G7G7     C majorC   A minorAm
The..
DmDm E MajorE    A minorAm
Romance..
(riff 1)

FF  G7G7   C majorC    Am7Am7
This..
DmDm  E MajorE    Am2  A minorAm
This ..

C majorC      Am7Am7
She ..
       Am7/GAm7/G  FF
She ..
DmDm     G7G7
But ..
      C majorC (alter with Cmaj7Cmaj7)
For ..
C majorC        Am7Am7        Am7/GAm7/G  FF
She's ..
DmDm     G7G7        C majorC A minorAm
But in ..
DmDm  E MajorE     A minorAm
The ..
(riff 1)

FF  G7G7   C majorC    Am7Am7
This ..
DmDm  E MajorE    Am2  A minorAm
This ..
(riff 1)
FF  G7G7   C majorC    Am7Am7
This..
DmDm  E MajorE    Am2  A minorAm
This ..

[Instrumental break with piano-solo]
C-Am7-Am7/G-F-Dm-G7-C-C-Am7-Am7/G-F-Dm-E-Am-F-Dm-E-Am-(riff 1)
F-G7-C-Am7-Dm-E-Am-(riff 2)

[tempo slows down a bit]
     C majorC      Am7Am7
I've ..
  Am7/GAm7/G  FF
In the..
   DmDm      G7G7
It's ..
   C majorC
When ..
     C majorC      Am7Am7
I've ..
  Am7/GAm7/G  FF
In the ..
 DmDm      G7G7
I sure ..
  C majorC      FF
Now ..
  X      E MajorE
Now ..
   Am2 A minorAm
This ..

[tempo back to normal]
C majorC (alter with Cmaj7Cmaj7)
ola
3 x C majorC (alter with Cmaj7Cmaj7)

[Instrumental break with trumpet-solo]
C-Am7-Am7/G-F-Dm-G7-C
ola
C-Am7-Am7/G-F-Dm-G7-C-C-E-Am
(riff 1)

FF  G7G7   C majorC    Am7Am7
This ..
DmDm  E MajorE    Am2  A minorAm
This ..
(riff 1)
FF  G7G7   C majorC    Am7Am7
This ..
DmDm  E MajorE    Am2  A minorAm
This ..
[Repeat until fade out]