The Clash – Card Cheat (Guitar)

        C                       Dm   C
There's a solitary man crying  "Hold me"

                         Dm    C
It's only because he's a-lonely

                              Dm C
If the keeper of time runs slowly

                           Dm  C
He won't be alive for long!

      F                                          C         Dm C         
If he only had time to tell of all of the things he planned

       G                                                             
With a card up his sleeve  what would he achieve?

         F       C/E  G/D  G
It means nothing!

       C                        Dm   C
To the opium dens and the barroom gin

                              Dm  C
In the Belmont chair playing violins

                               Dm   C
The gambler's face cracks into a grin

                                Dm  C
As he lays down the king of spades

        F     
But the dealer just stares

                                     C  Dm  C
There's something wrong here  he thinks

    G
The gambler is seized and forced to his knees

    F   C/E      G/D G
And shot.......... Dead

        F       
He only wanted more time

               C           Dm  C
Away from the darkest door

        G                        
But his luck it gave in  as the dawn light crept in

       F   C/E    G/D G
And he lay on the floor

C                                Dm   C
From the Hundred Year War to the Crimea

                                Dm    C
With a lance and a musket and a roman spear 

                                      Dm   C
To all of the men who have stood with no fear

                          Dm  C
In the service of the King

  F                                   
Before you met your fate be sure you

        C       Dm  C
Did not forsake

     G                 F      C/E G/D  G
Your lover  may not be around anymore

          C                     Dm   C
There's a solitary man crying  "Hold me"

                            Dm  C
It's only because he's a-lonely

                              Dm  C
If the keeper of time runs slowly

                          Dm  C
He won't be alive for long!