Key: Ab

Tuning: Standard EADGBe

Intor: Ab  Eb  Ab  C#  Ab  Eb  C# Eb Ab  


Verse 1:
Ab Eb
1871 was the year
     Ab         C#     Eb
underneath an October sky
       Ab
When a windy city man had
    C#
set out with a plan to set
  Ab         Eb         Ab
a fire but nobody knows why
   Ab
So Pegleg headed out 
Eb
back with a match and a
Ab        C#  Eb
bucket of kerosene
Ab
Little did he know that the
C#
wind would blow through
     Ab          Eb  Ab
the streets with anarchy


Refrain:
C#                    Ab
Pegleg didn't have an alibi
   C#                     Ab
He didn't have a story to tell
       C#
But he bought his one way
Ab                 Eb
ticket straight to hell


Chorus 1:
       Ab
Cuz he burned the
whole damn city
     Eb
yeah Watched it all go down
        Fm
Yeah he burned all of
C#             Eb
Chicago to the ground
        Ab
yeah he burned that
beautiful city
   Eb
He torched that
beautiful town
        Fm
Yeah he burned all of
   C#   Eb     Ab    C# Ab
Chicago to the ground


Verse 2:
   Ab
The Flames spread
           Eb
fast every night
While they passed through
    Ab
the alleys and the
C#        Eb
dead end streets
        Ab
From suburban doors to
    C#
the lakefront shore
  Ab        Eb   Ab
demolishing everything
    Ab
And pegleg never got
Eb
blamed for the mess made
Ab            C#        Eb
Said he never broke the law
    Ab
But all that remained was
    C#
the charred black stains
        Ab    Eb         Ab
Proving every things his fault


(Repeat Refrain)
(Repeat Chorus 1)


Bridge:
   Eb
Of all the books
    C#            Ab  C# Ab
printed on his terrain
     Eb
None raised the flag
   C#           Ab C# Ab
on one mans legacy
Fm
  Now everybody
C#
knows the truth
        Fm
of the stories
        C#
being exposed
   Fm
So Pegleg's going
C#          Eb
down in infamy


Chorus 1:
       Ab
Cuz he burned the
whole damn city
     Eb
yeah Watched it all go down
        Fm
Yeah he burned all of
C#             Eb
Chicago to the ground
        Ab
yeah he burned that
beautiful city
   Eb
He torched that
beautiful town
        Fm
Yeah he burned all of
   C#   Eb     Ab    C# Ab
Chicago to the ground
        C#
Yeah he burned all of
   Eb          Ab    C# Ab
Chicago to the ground
        C#
Yeah he burned all of
   Eb          Ab    C# Ab(hold)
Chicago to the ground