Chords with lyrics
Capo 2
Standard Tuning
Disclaimer:
This tab is not 100% accurate. It is not meant to be; it is meant for covering the song.
Intro
D----
C majorC
O how my great liberal heart labours,
C majorC
With the piss in my rivers and gall,
C majorC
Before the gleaming ceremonial sabres,
C majorC
Who falls on them falls for us all...
C majorC
Every night I pick the locks
C majorC
On that white Victorian box,
C majorC
Every night I pick the locks and the gaolers say...
C-Cadd9-C-Cadd9-C-Cadd9-C-D----
C majorC
Some nights when I look through her window,
C majorC
And she seems an old lover to me,
C majorC
There peeling off her black nylon knee highs
C majorC
And yielding her breast to the sea...
C majorC
Every night I pick the locks
C majorC
On that white Victorian box,
C majorC
Every night I pick the locks
C majorC
On that white Victorian box,
A minorAm
But there's nobody home in her telephone bones.
Am--C--G--C--Am--C--G--C--F--Am--
C-Cadd9-C-Cadd9-C-Cadd9-C-D-C--D----
C majorC
I've kissed the green gem of the east coast,
C majorC
drunk the tropical fizz of the north,
C majorC
Played the far flung sand castles ate at by the Indian,
C majorC
Froze in the broken off port,
C majorC
To my blue collar sprawl out the blue stony wall,
C majorC
Where the weather don't bother and the sea don't recall,
C majorC
Sometimes it's a dead man as wide as he's tall
C majorC
by a blue blooded matron, and under her shawl
C majorC
Every night I pick the locks
C majorC
On that white Victorian box,
C majorC
Every night I pick the locks
C majorC
On that white Victorian box,
FF
I find buttons and bones,
FF
tiny soldiers, toy trains and murder...
C majorC
Every night I pick the locks
C majorC
On that white Victorian box,
C majorC
Every night I pick the locks
C-Cadd9-C-Cadd9-C-Cadd9-C-D-C--D~