Gino Vannelli – The Woman Upstairs (Guitar)

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The Women Upstairs transcription and chart Peter Kruger [email protected]
          Em                   C6
She had a chalk-white face and dandelion hair

        D/G                 D                        A      D/A  A
T'was a wisp of a woman who lived in the tenement up stairs

                     D  C     D/C  C
Where the walls were so thin
You could hear her
|Em         A/E     |Em     A/E    |Em   A/E  |Em
  breathin'

       Em                              Cmaj7
He was mountain of a man that stunk o' Brewdog ale

       D/G                  D6/9                    A    D/A  A
With a fist he swung like a curved-claw hammer on a nail

            G/B  C     D/C  C
With all of his  might
Most every
|Em   A/E   |Em   A/E  |Em   A/E   |Em
 night

        C        D        Em7      G     A
Then it came one day on a cold day in Ju ly

  Am7     C6        D      D6      G     B7sus4  B7
A time to choose to either live or die

       C   D/C  D          B7/D#                   Em   D6  A/C#
Like a low-hung fruit      sprung from the Tree of Life

         C      G/B    Am     F#7
Yeah the moment had ar rived

      B7
As he wrapped his hands around her throat
Before the kitchen lights went dark She took hold of the butcher knife
        G/F   F       Em  G7
And she drove it   in to  his

|Em          |            |A/E        |             |
 heart

|Em          |Em/D        |A/C#       |B7
                                       She drove it into his

|Em          |            |A/E        |         |
heart
|Em |Em/D |A/C# |B7+9 | |Em A/E |Em A/E |Em A/E |Em A/E |Em
         Em                   C6
Soon the police came and they laid her in cuffs

Gsus2                      Dsus2                      A    D/A  A
Threw her in the back of a black and white and sure e nough

                  C    D/C   C
They locked her a way

C
And there she would

|Em   A/E   |Em  A/E   |Em   A/E   |Em
stay

                    Cmaj13
Until such time her case was assigned

     Gsus2                   Dsus2                   A      D/A   A7
To a public defender who had ten other trials on his mind

                     C   D/C  C
Thus the verdict was in
Before a word was
|Em   A/E   |Em  A/E   |Em   A/E   |Em
spoken

      C        D        Em7      G     A
So it came one day on a cold day in Ju ly

  Am7     C6        D      D6      G     B7sus4  B7
A time to choose to either live or die

       C   D/C  D          B7/D#                   Em   D  A/C#
Like a low-hung fruit      sprung from the Tree of Life

         C      G/B    Am     F#7
Yeah the moment had ar rived

B7
As I heard her shout, "No way, no how!
No more blood and tears will I shed!" And then there came that terrible silence
         G/F      F    Em   B7
And that mountain of a man  was

|Em          |            |A/E           |             |
 dead

|Em          |Em/D        |A/C#          |B7
                                  Ya that mountain of a man was

|Em          |            |A/E           |              |
 dead
|G/C |D/G |D |Cmaj7 | |Bb6 |Abmaj7 |G |F | |Em |Em |Em |Em | |Em9 |Em9 |Em9 |Em9 |
               Em                  D6/9
She weren't no newsworthy face, no lady fair

       Gsus2               Dsus2                    A      D/A   A
Just a hard-luck woman who lived in the tenement up stairs

                     C     D/C   C
Who by a jury of her peers

                Em7
Got twenty-five years