Tumbling Down chords by Steve Harley And Cockney Rebel

Tumbling Down
Steve Harley

Verse 1:
A             C#m           F#m          E            D       A       E
Gee, but it's hard when one lowers one's guard to the vultures
    A    C#m         F#m      E             D                 A       E
Now me I regard it a tortuous hardship that smoulders
       F#m        D             E
Like a peppermint eaten away
       F#m           D          E
Will I fight, will I swagger or sway?
A           C#m       F#m          E       D                  A       E
Hee hee, mi-lady, she cries like a baby to scold us
                 A    C#   F#m    E            D       A       E
See her tumbling down                 Tumbling down

Verse 2:
A           C#m           F#m         E       D       A       E
Hail to the monkey, we're having us a funky reunion
A          C#m          F#m       E         D       A       E
Wasted and sunk, he can only have Sunday communion
         F#m      D             E
He's got nicotine stains in his eyes
         F#m        D               E
(He's got) nothing to protect but his pride
A           C#m        F#m         E           D       A       E
Smother the kiss or be drownded in blissful confusion
                A   C#m   F#m     E            D       A       E
See it tumbling down                  Tumbling down

Verse 3:
A        C#m           F#m     E         D             A       E
Juvenile tale, see the Titanic sail into Brighton
    A         C#m           F#m       E        D       A       E
The Hemingway staccato, the tragic bravado can frighten.
      F#m  D                      D
To be here there and everywhere’s fine
           F#m           D             E
But do you have to be so swift all the time?
  A         C#m         F#m          E        D       A       E
Deliver the dawn to the Moulin Rouge on the horizon
                  A    C#m   F#m    E               D       A       E
Watch it tumbling down                     Tumbling down (Repeat)

Verse 4:
A  C#m   F#m               E           D      A      E
Oh dear, look what they’ve done to the blues, blues, blues
A  C#m   F#m               E           D      A      E
Oh dear, look what they’ve done to the blues, blues, blues
A  C#m   F#m               E           D      A      E