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Chords/Tabulature for
Life In The City

Submitted by: Charlie Coombs (GUNGBG@aol.com)

Notes about this song:

  • This one is full of guitar and a big horn section.
  • I've tabbed out the main rhythm/bass parts, with the horn parts enclosed in [brackets].
  • Neil seems to be adding a few little things here and there on Ol' Black, such as this during the intro/verse riff:
    bass part   A         D  
              E-0-----------------------
     guitar   B-2---5--7--2---5-7---5-7-
      part    G-2---5--7--2---5-7---5-7-
              D-2---5--7--2---5-7---5-7-
              A-0-----------------------
              E-------------------------
  • Chords shown in [brackets] are for the horn section.

Chord: E7#9 (no 5th): 076780

Intro:  A      D  [CD  CD] (x2)

A
People sleepin' on the sidewalks 
           D    [C D   C D]
On a rainy day 
A
Families livin' under freeways 
                  D   [C D   C D]
It's the American way 
A
Starvin' in the city 

While the farm goes to seed 
C
Murder in the home 
    G            F
And crime on the streets

A                               [C D]
Don't that trouble you brother? 
A                           [C D]
Don't that trouble you pal? 
A                              [C D]
Don't that trouble you sister? 
E7#9    (no chords)
Well,   that's life in the city

All our old hangouts 
Are boarded up and closed 
Or being sold to someone 
Nobody knows 
I got a woman that loves me 
And I love her so 
She's all dressed up now 
With nowhere to go

Don't that trouble you brother? 
Don't that trouble you pal? 
Don't that trouble you sister? 
Well, that's life in the city

Sax solo: (verse chords)
Guitar solo: (chorus chords)

That's life in the city

Guitar solo: (over intro chords)

Listen to me people 
Hear what I have to say 
Ever since I was knee high 
I rocked my blues away 
But people sleepin' on the sidewalks 
And families in need 
Murder in the home 
And crime on the streets

Don't that trouble you brother? 
Don't that trouble you pal? 
Don't that kill you sister? 
Well, that's life in the city

A    D   (x3 and fade....)

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