The Clash – The Card Cheat (Guitar)

  C
There's a solitary man cryin', "Hold me"

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

  C
And if the keeper of time runs slowly

  C
He won't be alive for long!

  F                                                             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  Em  G
It means nothin'

  C
To the opium dens and the barroom gin

  C
In the Belmont chair playing violin

  C
The gambler's face cracks into a grin

  C
As he lays down the king of spades

  F
But the dealer just stares

  F                                          C
"There's something wrong here", he thinks

  G
The gambler is seized and forced to his knees

  F  Em  G
And shot dead

  F
He only wanted more time

  F                      C
Away from the darkest door

  G
But his luck it gave in

  G
As the dawn light crept in

  F  Em  G
And he lay on the floor

  C
From the Hundred Year War to the Crimea

  C
With a lance and a musket and a Roman spear

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

  C
In the service of the King

  F
Before you met your fate

  F                        C
Be sure you did not forsake

  G
Your lover

  F  Em  G
May not be around anymore

  C
There's a solitary man cryin', "Hold me"

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

  C
And if the keeper of time runs slowly

  C
He won't be alive for long!