• Song:

    Kentish Town Waltz

  • Artist:

    Imelda May

  • Album:

    More Mayhem

My first tab. For the irrepressibly brilliant Imelda May. Hope you like it.

Intro: 
G Major

Verse 1   
G (320003@1)                                                          DDo (xx0232@1)you remember we traipsed around from pub to pound shop up through Kentish Town
DOnly (xx0232@1)a fiver to our name, the drunk on the doorstep had more to our shame
G (320003@1)                                                           DLiving (xx0232@1)over the offy had its trials the fights all night out there and inside
DAnd (xx0232@1)those stews that lasted three days into four and the dreaded baliffs' 
Dreturned (xx0232@1)to our door,

Bridge 1:
C (x32010@1)                          Am (x02210@1)                C (x32010@1)                   Ambut (x02210@1)we stuck with each other with all our might, we pulled it together and held on tight,
DAnd (xx0232@1)I'm glad for us yeah I'm glad mo chroi but it's nothing to anyone 'cept you and me

Chorus:
C (x32010@1)               G (320003@1)              C (x32010@1)                    GThere (320003@1)were wrongs for every right, there's ups and there's downs
C (x32010@1)                G (320003@1)             DBut (xx0232@1)you're the one for all my life, my true love I have found, yeah you my 
       Glove (320003@1)I found

Verse 2:
G (320003@1)                                                                              
I watched the moon cover the might of the sun, The weird evening light at a 
Dquarter (xx0232@1)past one, and I knew in my head as you lay in our bed that you'd stay
Din (xx0232@1)my heart til the day I was dead,
G (320003@1)                                                               D (xx0232@1)We killed each other and loved in time, and laughed til we almost cried,
Dyeah (xx0232@1)we cried as well when it all went to hell, And my heart it broke til I 
Dswear (xx0232@1)it died

Bridge 2:
C (x32010@1)                          Am (x02210@1)                C (x32010@1)                   Ambut (x02210@1)we stuck with each other with all our might, we pulled it together and held on tight,
DAnd (xx0232@1)I'm glad for us yeah I'm glad mo chroi but it's nothing to anyone 'cept you and me

Chorus repeated:
C (x32010@1)                G (320003@1)             C (x32010@1)                   GThere (320003@1)were wrongs for every right, there's ups and there's downs
C (x32010@1)                G (320003@1)             DBut (xx0232@1)you're the one for all my life, my true love I have found, yeah you my 
       Glove (320003@1)I found

Guitar Solo:     G (320003@1)  D (xx0232@1)  D (xx0232@1)Verse 3:
G (320003@1)                                                              DOh (xx0232@1)you're good at the things I'm hopeless at and I notice what you ignore
DBut (xx0232@1)its when I see you're not prefect for me, its then I love you more and more,

Bridge 3:
C (x32010@1)                          Am (x02210@1)                C (x32010@1)                   Amand (x02210@1)we stuck with each other with all our might, we pulled it together and held real tight,
DAnd (xx0232@1)I'm glad for us, I'm glad mo chroi but it's nothing to anyone except you and me

Chorus repeated:
C (x32010@1)                G (320003@1)             C (x32010@1)                   GThere (320003@1)were wrongs for every right, there's ups and there's downs
C (x32010@1)                G (320003@1)             DBut (xx0232@1)you're the one for all my life, my true love I have found, yeah you my 
       Glove (320003@1)I found

Ooo oooo

Chorus repeated:
C (x32010@1)               G (320003@1)              C (x32010@1)                     GThere (320003@1)were wrongs for every right, there's ups and there's downs
C (x32010@1)                G (320003@1)              DBut (xx0232@1)you're the one for all my life, my true love I have found, yeah you my 
           Glove (320003@1)I found

Outro: G

The country may be going to shite but at least we can be proud of our brilliant 
artists, from Hannon and Davey to May and Hannigan.
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