A      F#m      Bm      E      A (strum this A twice)

                    F#m
There's an angel on the stairs
                 Bm
(as if you'd even care)

When the lights go up,
          E
And the sun has nearly gone down.


A                      F#m
Did you see him on the street?
                         Bm
Did you pass him at your feet?

Did you think aloud, "how dare they 
        E
even look me in the eye'?


D
And he loves the girls.
E
And he loves the boys.
Bm                   D
Going to make twenty dollars
           E
before the weekends over.


A              F#m
So set him up,
             Bm
Let him fall.
         E             D
Turn him over in your hands.
A           F#m             D
God save the King of New Orleans.


     A (twice, like in the intro)

                          F#m
Got a ticket to a show.
                           Bm
Going to see him take a blow.

When the drunk one said,
               E
"Cat Stevens was the greatest singer!"


     A (twice)

                         F#m
And did you kick him in the head?
                          Bm
Did you see the blood run down? 

Did you laugh at all when the
            E                    D
people walked right by and said aloud,


             E
"You gutter punks are all the same.
Bm                  D               E
"Probably make twenty dollars 'fore the weekends over."?


A              F#m
So set him up,
             Bm
Let him fall.
         E             D
Turn him over in your hands.
A           F#m             D
God save the King of New Orleans.

      Interlude Riff:

A -5---5---5---5-4-5---5---5---5-4-5-4-  |  

E ---2---3---5-------2---3---5---------  |  


G  D  A               G
       Radio in my head
D  A                       G
        Radio in that car


        Bm
Going down again,
                D
He's going down again....


A                             F#m
Anyway you look, anyway you talk it over.
         Bm
It's easier to let it slip out of your mind.
               E                  
But it rips your heart out.
A                  F#m
Then it kicks your head in.
                     Bm
Just give him one more chance, 
               E            D
Try to see the beauty in his world.
A                             F#m
All the way in on my hands, in on my feet,
               Bm                    D
and shoulders. Going to make twenty dollars 
                E
before the weekends over.


A              F#m
So set him up,
             Bm
Let him fall.
         E             D
Turn him over in your hands.
A           F#m             D
God save the King of New Orleans.


A           F#m             D
God save the King of New Orleans.