Flogging Molly – Life In A Tenement Square (Ukulele)

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Life In A Tenement Square Tab by Flogging Molly Intro Am C D G Am C E Verse 1:
        Am         C         D      G
Well I kissed the day, I was on my way

            Am         C         E
From those cold grey blocks of stone

     Am        C          D            G
For seventeen years of squalor filled tears

   Am           C    G     Am
A time now with innocence lost

        C                           G                 
As the sun split the room with its rays filled with gloom

 Am                     E7
Turnin’ all hope to despair

        Am          C           D             G
And the only thing left was to flee from the nest

          Am        C   G     Am
That was life in a Tenement Square
Interlude: Am C D G Am C G Am Verse 2:
        Am         C         D      G
I remember the song where the rats sang along

            Am         C         E
And danced for their daily bread

     Am                   C            D            G
While the damp washed the walls that were twenty feet tall

   Am           C    G     Am
Not a child in the house was fed

        C                           G                 
On the porter filled face of the men left no trace

Am                     E7
Of the coin they had already spent

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While our mothers asked God what was Hell ever for

          Am        C   G     Am
When you lived in a Tenement Square
Bridge:
             G                        Am
Grab what’s left of the coal from the ole cubbyhole

       G                         Am
These cinders need more to be a fire

            G                          Am
While the ghosts of the soldiers that lived there before us

 C                G             Am
Laugh with their guns by their sides

             C                 G             Am
I hear them laugh, with their guns by their sides
Verse 3:
        Am         C         D      G
Now politicians they dwell in that forgotten Hell

            Am         C         E
Our misery’s been turned into news

     Am               C         D            G
Where the fat of the land now hog, hand in hand

   Am           C    G     Am
A crime now of life was ever true

C                           G                 
As the sun split the room with its rays filled with gloom

Am                     E7
Turnin’ all hope to despair 

        Am          C           D             G
And the only thing left was to flee from the nest

          Am        C   G     Am
That was life in a Tenement Square