Old Soho chords by Murray Head

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: D

Difficulty: Intermediate

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

*Sax solo*

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

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

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

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

*Repeat to fade*