The Woman Upstairs chords by Gino Vannelli

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: E minorEm

Difficulty: Advanced

The Women Upstairs


     E minorEm          C6C6
She had a chalk-white face and dandelion hair
    D MajorD          D MajorD            A augmentedA   D/AD/A A augmentedA
T'was a wisp of a woman who lived in the tenement upstairs
           D MajorD  C majorC   D/C C majorC
Where the walls were so thin

You could hear her
|E minorEm     A/EA/E   |E minorEm   A/EA/E  |E minorEm  A/EA/E |
 bleedin'

    E minorEm                Cmaj7Cmaj7
He was mountain of a man that stunk o' Brewdog ale
    D/G          D6/9         A augmentedA  D/AD/A A augmentedA
With a fist he swung like a curved-claw hammer on a nail
      G/BG/B C majorC   D/C C majorC
With all of his might
Most every

|E minorEm     A/EA/E   |E minorEm   A/EA/E  |E minorEm   A/EA/E  |E minorEm
 night


    C majorC     D MajorD    E minor 7Em7   G+G   A augmentedA
Then it came one day on a cold day in July
 Am7Am7   C6C6    D MajorD   D6D6   G+G   B7sus4B7sus4 B7B7
A augmentedA time to choose to either live or die
    C majorC  D/C D MajorD     B7/D#          E minorEm  D6D6 A/C#A/C#
Like a low-hung fruit   sprung from the Tree of Life
     C majorC   G/BG/B   A minorAm  F#7F#7
Yeah the moment had arrived
   B7B7
As he wrapped his hands around her throat
Before the kitchen lights went dark
She took hold of the butcher knife
    G/F  FF   E minorEm G7G7
And she drove it  in to his
|E minorEm   |A/EA/E   |E minorEm  Em/DEm/D  |A/C#A/C#
heart
  B7B7
She drove it in to his

|E minorEm   |A/EA/E   |E minorEm  Em/DEm/D  |A/C#A/C#  B7B7+9 |
heart
|E minorEm  A/EA/E  |E minorEm A/EA/E  |E minorEm  A/EA/E  |E minorEm

     E minorEm          C6C6
Soon the police came and they laid her in cuffs
 Gsus2Gsus2           Dsus2Dsus2           A augmentedA  D/AD/A A augmentedA
Threw her in the back of a black and white and sure enough
         C majorC  D/C  C majorC
They locked her away
C majorC
And there she would
|E minorEm  A/EA/E  |E minorEm A/EA/E  |E minorEm  A/EA/E  |E minorEm
stay


          CMaj13Cmaj13
Until such time her case was assigned
   Gsus2Gsus2         Dsus2Dsus2          A augmentedA   D/AD/A  A7A7
To a public defender who had ten other trials on his mind
           C majorC  D/C C majorC
Thus the verdict was in
Before a word was

|E minorEm  A/EA/E  |E minorEm A/EA/E  |E minorEm  A/EA/E  |E minorEm
spoken


    C majorC    D MajorD     E minor 7Em7   G+G   A augmentedA
Then it came one day on a cold day in July
 Am7Am7   C6C6    D MajorD   D6D6   G+G   B7sus4B7sus4 B7B7
A augmentedA time to choose to either live or die
    C majorC  D/C D MajorD      B7/D#          E minorEm  D MajorD A/C#A/C#
Like a low-hung fruit   sprung from the Tree of Life
     C majorC   G/BG/B   A minorAm  F#7F#7
Yeah the moment had arrived

B7B7
As I heard her shout, "No way, no how!
No more blood and tears will I shed!"
And then there came that terrible silence
    G/F    FF  E minorEm  B7B7
And that mountain of a man was

|E minorEm   |A/EA/E   |E minorEm  Em/DEm/D  |A/C#A/C#
 dead
     B7B7
Ya that mountain of a man was

|E minorEm      |A/EA/E    |G/C  D/G  |D MajorD  Cmaj7Cmaj7  |
dead
|Bb6Bb6 Abmaj7Abmaj7  |G+G  FF  |E minorEm      |E minorEm     |Em9Em9   |Em9Em9    |



        E minorEm         D6/9
She weren't no newsworthy face, no lady fair
    Gsus2Gsus2        Dsus2Dsus2           A augmentedA   D/AD/A  A augmentedA
Just a hard-luck woman who lived in the tenement upstairs
           C majorC   D/C  C majorC
Who by a jury of her peers
         E minor 7Em7
Got twenty-five years