• Song:

    Sin City

  • Artist:

    Billy Bragg

  • Album:

    Billy Bragg Vol.1

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>From rousseaf@nil.IRO.UMontreal.CA (Francois Rousseau)
Subject: AOTW: Billy Bragg: Sin City
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 05:57:04 GMT

                        Sin City

Intro: G D G C G D C G

          G (320003@1)                DThis (xx0232@1)old town 's filled with sin
       G (320003@1)         CIt'll (x32010@1)swallow you in
      G (320003@1)                  DIf (xx0232@1)you got some money to burn
         G (320003@1)         DTake (xx0232@1)it home right away
            G (320003@1)           CYou've (x32010@1)got three years to pay
     G (320003@1)          D (xx0232@1)      G (320003@1) G7The (320001@1)city is waiting his turn

(chorus)
       C (x32010@1)                     D (xx0232@1)            G (320003@1)        G7This (320001@1)old earthquake 's gonna leave me in the poor house
       C (x32010@1)          G (320003@1)           DIt (xx0232@1)seems like this old town 's insane
          C (x32010@1)          D (xx0232@1)    G (320003@1)         COn (x32010@1)the thirty-first floor, a gold plated door
        G (320003@1)          D (xx0232@1)            G (320003@1)   G (320003@1)name="chord_xx0232@1">D G (320003@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C G (320003@1)name="chord_xx0232@1">D C (x32010@1)name="chord_320003@1">G
Won't keep out the lord's burning rain

   G (320003@1)         D (xx0232@1)          G (320003@1)      CThe (x32010@1)scientist say, it will all wash away
    G (320003@1)                   DBut (xx0232@1)we don't, believe anymore
       G (320003@1)        DSo (xx0232@1)we got our recruit
       G (320003@1)          CAnd (x32010@1)a green mohair suit
     G (320003@1)              D (xx0232@1)         G (320003@1)  G7So (320001@1)please show your I.D. at the door

(chorus)

     G (320003@1)         D (xx0232@1)              G (320003@1)          CA (x32010@1)friend came around, tried to clean up this town
      G (320003@1)                   DHis (xx0232@1)ideas made some people mad
          G (320003@1)          D (xx0232@1)         G (320003@1)        CBut (x32010@1)he thrusted his crowd, so he spoke right out loud
        G (320003@1)          D (xx0232@1)            G (320003@1)     G7And (320001@1)they lost the best friend they had

(chorus)

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Francois Rousseau
Laboratoire Incognito (Computer Languages)
Universite de Montreal, Canada
E-mail: rousseaf@iro.umontreal.ca
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