Portobello Road chords by The Ryan Oreilly Band

Chords with lyrics

Band: The Ryan O'Reilly Band
Song: Portobello Road


CAPO 3
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Intro: C, Fmaj7, C, Am, G, C majorC


  C majorC             Fmaj7Fmaj7   C majorC
The walls are graffitied, the rubbish is strung,
  A minorAm    G+G      Fmaj7Fmaj7
the carneval has come to town.
  C majorC             Fmaj7Fmaj7   C majorC
The window's still borded, the police are scared.
   A minorAm       G+G      C majorC
Last week this whole city burned down.

     C majorC         Fmaj7Fmaj7      C majorC
There is no situation that they can't make worse.
    A minorAm     G+G     Fmaj7Fmaj7
There's thirty-five-thousand arounds;
      C majorC            Fmaj7Fmaj7  C majorC
and they'll gravely chase after the fears or foes,
  A minorAm     G+G   C majorC
provided their easily founds.

  Fmaj7Fmaj7        C majorC
So, imagine the future, imagine a booze,
A minorAm    G+G   Fmaj7Fmaj7
imagine a human face.
   C majorC           Fmaj7Fmaj7   C majorC
And imagine a country where everyone's watched,
     Fmaj7Fmaj7   G+G       C majorC
and then firmly put back in their place.


   C majorC             Fmaj7Fmaj7    C majorC
From Ladbroke Grove Station to Nottinghill Gates,
  A minorAm    G+G      Fmaj7Fmaj7
the market is dead, on its feet.
   C majorC              Fmaj7Fmaj7     C majorC
Past Orwells old house with dead looks in their eyes.
      A minorAm       G+G      C majorC
And their clipboards, they march on the beat.

     C majorC         Fmaj7Fmaj7      C majorC
You could go after them with guitars in your hands,
      A minorAm     G+G    Fmaj7Fmaj7
but they'll sure enough quickly deploy
      C majorC        Fmaj7Fmaj7     C majorC
drones that steal from you, choke you and shatter your bones.
    A minorAm  G+G   C majorC
Those (...) always destroy.

  Fmaj7Fmaj7        C majorC
So, imagine the future, imagine a booze,
A minorAm    G+G   Fmaj7Fmaj7
imagine a human face.
   C majorC           Fmaj7Fmaj7   C majorC
And imagine a country where everyone's watched,
     Fmaj7Fmaj7   G+G       C majorC
and then firmly put back in their place.


C, F, C, Am, G, F, C, F, C, Am, G, C majorC


   C majorC             Fmaj7Fmaj7    C majorC
So we gathered in silence in the back of the bar
    A minorAm        G+G       Fmaj7Fmaj7
on the street where the bands used to play.
 C majorC           Fmaj7Fmaj7    C majorC
Nursing our drinks and cursing our luck,
    A minorAm      G+G       C majorC
surely they don't deserve the last sake.

      C majorC             Fmaj7Fmaj7    C majorC
Raise your instruments high, and your voice to the sky,
      A minorAm     G+G      Fmaj7Fmaj7
'cause it's all that we have for the fight.
     C majorC            Fmaj7Fmaj7    C majorC
But when they turn this all into one shopping mall,
     A minorAm   G+G       C majorC
they'll finally sleep well at night.


  Fmaj7Fmaj7        C majorC
So, imagine the future, imagine a booze,
A minorAm    G+G   Fmaj7Fmaj7
imagine a human face.
   C majorC           Fmaj7Fmaj7   C majorC
And imagine a country where everyone's watched,
     Fmaj7Fmaj7   G+G       C majorC
and then firmly put back in their place.