The Clash – Gates Of The West (Guitar)

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Chords

Open Barre F/C x33211 or 8,8,10,10,10,x Csus4 x33011 or 8,10,10,10,x,x C5 8,10,10,x,x,x G5 3,5,5,x,x,x A5 5,7,7,x,x,x F5 1,3,3,x,x,x
   [Intro riff]
     C          
e|---------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------|
G----------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------|
A|--------3--3--------------------3--3---------|
E|--3--5--------5--5--3--3--5--5--------5--5---|     x4
[Verse 1]
C
I would love to be the lucky one on Chill Avenue

Am
Who could keep your hear warm when ice has turned it blue

    G
But beggin' sleeping losers as they turn in for the night

    C
I'm looking back for home and I can see the lights

C
I should be jumpin' shoutin' that I made it all this way

     Am
From Camden Town Station to 44th and 8th

    G
Not many make it this far and many say we're great

    C
But just like them we walk on an' we can't escape our fate
[Pre Chorus]
Am                 F      G
Can't you hear the sighing

C        F/C   C   F
Eastside Jimmy and Southside Sue

     G                         Csus4  C
Both say they needed something new
[Chorus]
       C
So I'm standing at the gates of the West

       Em
I burn money at the lights of the sign

                 F     G               C
The city casts a shadow of the perfect crime
I'm standing at the gates of the East
          Em
I take my pulse and the pulse of my friend

                 F      G               C
The city casts a shadow, will I see you again?
[Verse 2]
C
The immigrants an' remnants of all the glory years

    Am
Are clustered around the bar again for another round of beers

       G
Little Richard's in the kitchen playing spoons and plates

     C
He's telling the waitress he's great

C
Ah say I know somewhere back'n'forth in time

Am
Out on the dustbowls, deep in the roulette mine

   G
Or in a ghetto cellar only yesterday

          C                                Am
There's a move into the future for the U.S.A.
[Pre Chorus]
            F     G
I hear them crying

C        F/C   C   F
Eastside Jimmy and Southside Sue

     G                         Csus4   C
Both say they needed something new
[Chorus]
       C
So I'm standing at the gates of the West

       Em
I burn money at the lights of the sign

                 F     G               C
The city casts a shadow of the perfect crime
I'm standing at the gates of the East
          Em
I take my pulse and the pulse of my friend

                 F      G               C
The city casts a shadow, will I see you again?
[Instrumental] C5 G5 A5 F5 C5 G5 A5 F5 C5 G5 A5 F5 C [Outro]
C                                Em
Standing at the gates of the West

       F      G      C
In the shadow again

                                 Em
Standing at the gates of the West

       G      C
In the shadow again

                                 Em
Standing at the gates of the West

       F  G   C     Em
In the shadow again

       F  G   C     Cmaj7
In the shadow again
Mark W