Under One Roof chords by The Rubettes

Chords with lyrics

Under One Roof
The Rubettes
Baby I Know 1977


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A augmentedA
Billy ran away from his home
         E MajorE
to find away to live in peace
  E7E7
His Mama didn't give a damn about him
          A augmentedA
His Papa's on the run from the Police
    D MajorD
When Billy hit the city - the city hit Billy
A augmentedA
No one needs you when your down and out
              E MajorE
Then one kind guy with the painted eyes
      E7E7         A augmentedA
Picked him up and bailed him out

A augmentedA        E7E7
Under one roof sharing one room
          A augmentedA
Nobody cared about them
         E7E7
under one roof sharing one room
           A augmentedA
daring the world to part them


Billy found it hard to find a job to make some pay
AII day looking round
getting me down I was being turned away
And Johnny was the only one who didn't talk down
To Billy from up above and for the first time in his life
Billy found out what it felt like to be loved


Under one roof sharing one love
Nobody cared about them
under one roof sharing one love
           A augmentedA    F7F7
daring the world to part them

Bb majorBb
Somehow Billy's Papa found out all
          FF
about the style of Billy's life
     F7F7
And it didn't take long before he
         Bb majorBb
came round and he had a knife
  Eb MajorEb
He cut up Johnny stole all his money
  Bb majorBb
He called him all the names that he could find
                  FF
Said he'd wait for Billy at the factory tomorrow
   F7F7
And show him what they do to Billy's kind


Bb majorBb       F7F7
Under one roof sharing one love
             Bb majorBb
Now the whole world knew about them
        F7F7
under one roof sharing one love
           Bb majorBb   F#7F#7
daring the world to part them


BB                        F#F#
Johnny said "Billy we can run away from the world no more
   F#7F#7
I'm gonna fetch my daddy

I'm gonna show the world who I'm
BB       E MajorE
living for and if I lose my job
          BB
If I lose my life you'll know one thing is true
          F#F#
He can take away anything from me
    F#7F#7
But he won't take me from you"


And at five thirty dead his daddy waited at the factory
For him to come and how it did degrade
Him he cut him and he slayed him
And spat on him in front of ev'ryone
As Billy lay dying his Papa started crying
Because the parent through him he became
And all because the person who has the first to give him love