The Woman Upstairs Chords

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