Strum pattern = D " " UDUD and change chord on the last Down strum
Capo on 3rd Fret
[Intro]
|G Am7 |C G |Am C |Am G |G
[Verse 1]
A G
Catholic School girls are on the move
C G
Plad clean skirts patterned leather shoes
G
Makes me think of my own school boy days
G
When every school girl was fair game
C
Fist fights and ciggerettes
Am G
Behind the Brunswick Arcade
A
Now New Yorks a drunkard
C G
My home towns a bore
C
And it's my city I live in
Am G
It's full of culture and whores
C G
Here I stand half naked in the rain
C Am G
Alone, a cold, ashamed
C Am
I think about a woman
D7 G
She makes me think about a train
[Chorus]
C D G
Wooh woe is me
C D G
Wooh woe is me e e yeah heh heh
C D B7 C
Wooh oh I should of hopped on that train
C D G
Wooh woe is me
[Instrumental]
|G Am7 |G |C Am |D G
[Verse 2]
Am C G
The bar maids a beauty in the pub across the street
Am7 C
A blonde with a body and a full set of teeth
G C G
She makes me think about closing the drink
C Am G
But my wallets in my chino's back at the clink
C G
I'm wrapped in old glory under God's kitchen sink
Am C G
The cops are all crooked the brothel is safe
C Am7 C
And I'm pennyless, pathetic a total discrace
G C G
But she didn't have to throw it in my face
C G
And leave me for a plumber with such great rates
C Am D7 G
Now she wants me back just as I'm starting to date
[Chorus]
C D G
Wooh woe is me
C D G
Wooh woe is me e e yeah heh heh
C D B7 C
Wooh oh I should of hopped on that train
C D G
Wooh woe is me
[Instrumental]
|G |Am7 C |G C |Am D |G
[Verse]
C G
The pain is forgotten though there are truth's I still doubt
C
The rings never colder then when a mans drying out
G C G
The train whistle never whistled so loud
Am G
I wait till the sun gives a shout
C D7 G
The bridge is a rainbow between blue sky and cloud
[Chorus]
C D G
Wooh woe is me
C D G
Wooh woe is me e e yeah heh heh
C D B7 C
Wooh oh I should of hopped on that train
C D G
Wooh woe is me
[Chorus]
C D G
Wooh woe is me
C D G
Wooh woe is me e e yeah heh heh
C D B7 C
Wooh oh I should of hopped on that train
C D G
Wooh woe is me
[Outro]
|G Am |C G |C Am |D G |