Top Of The World chords by The Rubettes

Chords with lyrics

Top of the World
The Rubettes
Sometime in Oldchurch 1978


|C majorC| |G+G| |FF| |C majorC|

|FF| |FF E MajorE| |A minorAm|


     A minorAm          E MajorE
You were born in a room in a house in a block
    FF         C majorC
in a street in a town somewhere
    FF        E MajorE       A minorAm   DmDm E MajorE
just another damn kid today with no tomorrow
     A minorAm           E MajorE
and your mother would work every hour God sent
   FF            C majorC
and you'd know the way she'd feel
  FF            E MajorE       A minorAm  DmDm E MajorE
so you learned to beg and steal but never borrow

  A minorAm            E/G#
A augmentedA kid needs his old man and you needed yours
     F/AF/A       C/GC/G
but your old man was not around
     FF        E MajorE     A minorAm DmDm E MajorE
he was passing his time away doing time
  A minorAm          E/G#
so you and your ma had to make it alone
   F/AF/A           C/GC/G
and while she would work all day
 FF          E MajorE       A minorAm DmDm E MajorE
you tried to find a way to make a dime


       C majorC
and with the cap in your hand
     G+G
you were known down the street
   FF         D MajorD
as "Cody the crazy kid out on his beat"
     C majorC   G+G            FF  F minorFm
and it's a long road to the top of the world
 C majorC           G+G
Cody the kid with the old man inside
   FF           D MajorD
and he'll go the same way, I'll bet my hide
     C majorC    G+G           A minorAm
and it's a long road to the top of the world

|(A minorAm)| |A minorAm G+G| |FF| |FF|

|A minorAm| |A minorAm G+G| |FF| |FF|


When you heard from your ma that your old man had died
in the room with the quilted walls
you seemed to hear the call and see the sign
and at seventeen years you'd the piece in your hand
and your fate and your future too
now it was ma and you, the grand design


and you killed and you robbed on your way to the top
never stopping to turn around
you never heard the sound of your old man crying
the top of the world was yours for the grabs
and the end justified the means
until the sound of the old sirens would drown your dying


And with the peice in your hand you're the king of the night
but somebody told me and somebody's right
that it's a long road to the top of the world
Cody the kid with his sights set too high
and he'll never stop until he reaches the sky
and it's a long road to the top of the world


:|(A minorAm)| |A minorAm G+G| |FF| |FF|

 |A minorAm| |A minorAm G+G| |FF| |FF|: repeat and fade