Chumbawamba – The Big Issue (Guitar)

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[Intro] (acapella, with underlying chords)
          G               A
There are those spend the night

      C
Under bridges over by the river

G           A                C
Down in the park through the winter

              G            A
But there's a house that I know

        C
Safe and warm and no one ever goes there

G              A                 C
Down where the priests Bless the wine
[Verse 1]
G  C
She's been born into the wrong time

G  C
She keeps nonsense on her mind

G  C
She's a poet, she's a builder

G  C
She's as bored as bored can be

G  C
She's a have not, she's a know all

G  C
She knows just how to say yes

G  C
She's skating frozen chaos

G  C
'Til the no good gods are dead
[Pre-Chorus 1]
G        A                             C
     But sometimes in the dead of night

                           G
Woken by the city lights

    A                     C
She wonders how she keeps alive...
[Chorus]
G                    A
This is the girl who lost the house which

C
Came to the man who put up the rent and

G                     A                     C
Threw out the girl to Feather his own sweet home
[Verse 2]
G  C
She's a clueless social climber

G  C
Likes the wrong side of the bed

G  C
She's a pick-me-up and she's a drink-to-me

G  C
In the company of friends

G  C
She's tried every variation

G  C
She's so common, she's so cold

G  C
She's homesick for a future

G  C
Can't stomach what she's told
[Pre-Chorus 2]
G        A                     C
      On every street in every town

                        G
All her days are up and down

   A                       C
At home among the lost-and-founds...
[Chorus]
G                    A
This is the girl who lost the house which

C
Came to the man who put up the rent and

G                     A                     C
Threw out the girl to Feather his own sweet home
[Interlude]
Dm   Am   Dm   Am
(indistinct phased vocals)
Dm Am C D [Chorus]
G                    A
This is the girl who lost the house which

C
Came to the man who put up the rent and

G                     A                     C
Threw out the girl to Feather his own sweet home
[Outro]
G                    A
This is the girl who lost the house which

C
Came to the man who put up the rent and

G                     A                     C
Threw out the girl to Feather his own sweet home
(Intro comes in simultaneously)
          G               A
There are those spend the night

             C
Under bridges over by the river

G           A                C
Down in the park through the winter

              G            A
But there's a house that I know

        C
Safe and warm and no one ever goes there

G              A                 C
Down where the priests Bless the wine