D5 A tenement, a dirty street C5 Walked and worn by shoeless feet D5 Inside it's long and so complete C5 G5 Watched by a shivering sun D5 Old eyes in a small child's face C5 Watching as the shadows race D5 Through walls and cracks and leave no trace C5 G5 And daylight's brightness shuns D5 C5 The days of Pearly Spencer D5 C5 D5 The race is almost run D5 Nose pressed hard on frosted glass C5 Gazing as the swollen mass D5 On concrete fields where grows no grass C5 G5 Stumbles blindly on D5 Iron trees smother the air C5 But withering they stand and stare D5 Through eyes that neither know nor care C5 G5 Where the grass is gone D5 C5 The days of Pearly Spencer D5 C5 D5 The race is almost run D5 Pearly where's your milk white skin C5 What's that stubble on your chin D5 It's buried in the rot gut gin C5 G5 You played and lost not won D5 You played a house that can't be beat C5 Now look your head's bowed in defeat D5 You walked too far along the street C5 G5 Where only rats can run D5 C5 The days of Pearly Spencer D5 C5 D5 The race is almost run D5 C5 The days of Pearly Spencer D5 C5 D5 The race is almost run D5 C5 D5 The race is almost run D5 A tenement, a dirty street C5 Remember worn and shoeless feet D5 Remember how you stood to beat C5 G5 The way your life had gone D5 So Pearly don't you shed more tears C5 For those best forgotten years D5 Those tenements are memories C5 G5 Of where you've risen from D5 C5 The days of Pearly Spencer D5 C5 D5 The race is almost run