Old Soho chords by Murray Head

Chords with lyrics

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

Key: D MajorD

Difficulty: Intermediate

Verse:
D MajorD       B minorBm
The night was raining down
  F# minorF#m       A augmentedA
On neon streets of old Soho.
D MajorD        B minorBm
Our 'macs' were buttoned tight,
   F# minorF#m      A augmentedA
We'd just been to a show.
D MajorD      B minorBm
Those glossy pictures,
F# minorF#m        A augmentedA
Revealing much but never all;
Pre-Chorus:
E minorEm
The real thing was within, they said
   A augmentedA
"Come in and have a ball".
E minorEm
The girls were tired,
            A augmentedA
And not the same as the pictures on the wall.
Verse:
D MajorD      B minorBm
While ladies beckoned us,
  F# minorF#m         A augmentedA
And each would tell her sorry tale;
D MajorD      B minorBm
Some promise in the rain,
  F# minorF#m        A augmentedA
Of an experience gone stale;
  D MajorD       B minorBm
No better than a fruit machine,
  F# minorF#m         A augmentedA
With jackpot gone, and parts for sale.
Pre-Chorus:
E minorEm
Meanwhile on the sidewalk,
      A augmentedA
A majorA man lay spilling out his life.
E minorEm
He spat on civil pity,
    A augmentedA
Wanted money and not a wife.
    A augmentedA
Then he suddenly took out a knife,
 E minorEm
A augmentedA car went by and splashed us all -
 C majorC
I heard that doorman call,
       A augmentedA
"Come in and have a ball".
Chorus:
   D MajorD
The hookers, the bookers,
  B minorBm
The jaded onlookers;
  F# minorF#m            A augmentedA
The search of the lonely for a billboard sky.
  D MajorD
The streetwalk, the sleepwalk,
  B minorBm
The fast and the loose talk;
    F# minorF#m
It's a business doing pleasure,
     A augmentedA
With the meek and the shy.

*Sax solo*

Pre-Chorus:
   E minorEm
There are sometimes - Don't you wish
     A augmentedA
Don't you wish that you'd never come.
 E minorEm
I wish I could turn,

I could turn on my heels,
   C majorC
And run from the look in their eyes.
       E minorEm
There was no element of surprise.
      C majorC
Just that look of submission,

An open admission,
                       A augmentedA
That shows a decision to live their life this way.
Chorus:

  D MajorD
The hookers, the bookers,
   B minorBm
The jaded onlookers;
  F# minorF#m            A augmentedA
The search of the lonely for a billboard sky.
  D MajorD
The streetwalk, the sleepwalk,
  B minorBm
The fast and the loose talk;
    F# minorF#m
It's a business doing pleasure,
     A augmentedA
With the meek and the shy.

*Repeat to fade*