Intro 2x: A5 G5 A5 C5 A5 A5 C5 Me and Harvey shouted slogans in Spanish G5 A5 Like it was our world to win C5 Then they move a plant down a hater G5 A5 Time to bite your tongue again F5 A5 I've seen the fabled city G5 A5 It's streets are paved with gold F5 A5 But an iron fence runs round it C5 G5 A5 It's iron gate is closed ( A5 G5 A5 C5 A5 ) (2x) A5 C5 What ain't right ain't right he told me G5 A5 But something else passed behind his eyes A5 C5 No he's downtown on his knees washing floors for somebody G5 A5 And quietly biding his time F5 A5 I've seen the fabled city G5 A5 It's streets are paved with gold F5 A5 But an iron fence runs round it C5 G5 A5 G5 F5 E5 It's iron gate is closed ( A5 G5 A5 C5 A5 ) ( A5 G5 A5 C5 ) ( C5 G5 C5 G5 ) ( A5 G5 A5 C5 A5 ) A5 C5 The gas station on Sunset and Crescent G5 A5 I met an angel sad and old C5 She lived in the alley behind the market G5 A5 In the shadows may be hidden from the lord A5 C5 And for a dollar she sang a song G5 A5 Sounded more like a prayer A5 C5 A wish that her dead mother and father G5 A5 Couldn't look down and see her there F5 A5 I've seen the fabled city G5 A5 It's streets are paved with gold F5 A5 But an iron fence runs round it C5 G5 A5 It's iron gate is closed ( A5 G5 A5 C5 A5 ) (2x) F5 A5 On a wire outside my window G5 A5 There sit one hundred swallows F5 A5 And I suspect that if one flew G5 A5 Then ninety-nine would follow