The Woman Upstairs chords by Gino Vannelli

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: Em

Difficulty: Advanced

The Women Upstairs


          Em                    C6
She had a chalk-white face and dandelion hair
        D                   D                        A     D/A  A
T'was a wisp of a woman who lived in the tenement upstairs
                     D   C     D/C  C
Where the walls were so thin

You could hear her
|Em         A/E     |Em     A/E    |Em    A/E  |
  bleedin'


       Em                               Cmaj7
He was mountain of a man that stunk o' Brewdog ale
       D/G                    D6/9                  A    D/A  A
With a fist he swung like a curved-claw hammer on a nail
            G/B  C     D/C  C
With all of his might
Most every

|Em         A/E     |Em     A/E    |Em     A/E    |Em
 night


        C         D       Em7      G     A
Then it came one day on a cold day in July
  Am7     C6        D      D6      G     B7sus4  B7
A time to choose to either live or die
       C   D/C  D          B7/D#                   Em   D6  A/C#
Like a low-hung fruit      sprung from the Tree of Life
         C      G/B     Am    F#7
Yeah the moment had arrived
      B7
As he wrapped his hands around her throat
Before the kitchen lights went dark
She took hold of the butcher knife
        G/F    F      Em  G7
And she drove it   in to  his
|Em     |A/E     |Em   Em/D   |A/C#
heart
    B7
She drove  it in to his

|Em     |A/E     |Em   Em/D   |A/C#   B7+9  |
heart
|Em   A/E   |Em  A/E   |Em   A/E    |Em



         Em                    C6
Soon the police came and they laid her in cuffs
 Gsus2                     Dsus2                      A    D/A  A
Threw her in the back of a black and white and sure enough
                  C    D/C   C
They locked her away
C
And there she would
|Em   A/E   |Em  A/E   |Em   A/E   |Em
stay


                    Cmaj13
Until such time her case was assigned
     Gsus2                  Dsus2                    A      D/A   A7
To a public defender who had ten other trials on his mind
                     C   D/C  C
Thus the verdict was in
Before a word was

|Em   A/E   |Em  A/E   |Em   A/E   |Em
spoken


        C       D         Em7      G     A
Then it came one day on a cold day in July
  Am7     C6        D      D6      G     B7sus4  B7
A time to choose to either live or die
       C   D/C  D           B7/D#                   Em   D  A/C#
Like a low-hung fruit      sprung from the Tree of Life
         C      G/B     Am    F#7
Yeah the moment had arrived

B7
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       F    Em   B7
And that mountain of a man was

|Em     |A/E     |Em   Em/D   |A/C#
 dead
         B7
Ya  that mountain of a man was

|Em            |A/E       |G/C    D/G    |D   Cmaj7   |
dead
|Bb6  Abmaj7   |G    F    |Em            |Em          |Em9     |Em9       |




               Em                  D6/9
She weren't no newsworthy face, no lady fair
       Gsus2               Dsus2                     A      D/A   A
Just a hard-luck woman who lived in the tenement upstairs
                     C     D/C   C
Who by a jury of her peers
                 Em7
Got twenty-five years