On The Wire Chords by Kev Carmody

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He came back from the city, [C] says cuz where you been?
_ [G] Brother I've [Em] been living on the _ [D] wire.
_ [G] Lived down in [Em] that gutter [C] where the fittest _ _
[Am] survive.
[G] _ Plowed through them [Em] _ fields of _ [D] fire.
_ [G] Had a needle [Em] in a vein [C] that profited the [Am] same.
[G] Had a friend with no [Em] name who was a _ _ [D]
liar.
[G] Saw the white [Em] walls of freedom, [C] never found the [Am] black door.
[G] Saw the devil [Em] sing with _ angels in [G] a choir, [D] _
_ [G] sister.
We'll [Em] take you home [C] to the land [Am] we know.
[G] _ Give you that feast of the _ [D]
evening.
[G] _ _ Give you [Em]
that moon [C] with the wind on [Am] your face.
[G] The rains and the change of each _ season.
I saw people [Em] who were trapped [C] under the whip of [Am] fat cats.
Saw [G] people they [Am] devoid [Em] their dream.
[D] _ _ [G] Deep down [Em] inside there [C] was so much to hide, brother.
[G] You could see in their [Em] eyes there's no _ [D] meaning.
_ [G] So take me my [Em] sisters, _ [C] _ welcome me home.
[G] So I'll never _ again walk alone.
[D] _ _ [G] Our spirit [Em] _ demands [C] that we die in [Am] this land.
_ [G] No now my spirits come _ [D] home, _ [G] sister.
We'll take [Em] you home [C] to the land [Am] we know.
_ [G] Give you that feast of the _ _
[D] evening.
[G] _ Give you [Em] that moon with the [C] wind on your [G] face.
The rains and the [A] change [G] of each _ _ season. _ _ _ _
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[D] _ [G] Say brother, what [Em] you see is [C] in the land of progress.
[G] Said I never felt them four winds blow. _
[D] _ [G] Live with people [Em]
in chains, [C] the wounded and [Am] lame.
[G] Heard messiahs who [Am] spoke [Em] without no _
[D] one.
[G] Them seven seas [Em] rose, [C] the desert land [Am] froze.
[G] Each individual there was trapped in the _ _ [D]
prison.
[G] My spirit cried [C] out, no one else but [Am] us, brother.
[G] Their basis had [Am] no rhyme or [Em] no _ _ [D]
reason, [G] sister.
We'll [Em] take you home [C] to the land we [Am] know.
[Em] _ Give you that feast of the _ [D]
evening.
[G] _ _ Give [Em] you that moon with [C] the wind [Am] on your face.
[G] The rains and the change of each [D] season.
_ _ [G] _ We'll [Em] take you home to the land [Am]
we know.
[G] _ Give you that feast [Em] of the _ [D]
evening.
_ [G] _ Give [Em] you that moon [C] with the wind on [Am] your face.
[G] The rains and the change of each [D] season.
_ [G] _ _ We'll take you home [C] to the land [Am] we know.
_ [G] _ Give you that feast of the evening.
Give you [D]
that [G] feast.
Give [Em] you that moon [C] with the wind on your [Am] face.
[G] The rains and the change of each season.
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