King Street ukulele

King Street

• D

Capo 2


Intro: 

D  G/B G/C (2x) 


Verse: 
 
D     G/B            G/C 
 I'm wandering these city streets 
D                G/B          G/C 
 There's nothing here for me 
D              G/B           G/C 
All I see is people running round 
D       G/B             G/C 
Buying shit they don't need 


D          G/B                 G/C 
There's a man begging down on King Street 
D       G/B             G/C 
And he grabs me by the wrist 
      D            G/B                    G/C 
He says 'Son, you know what the biggest killer in this world is?' 
      D         G/B        G/C 
It's not money, not drugs, not guns 
               D         G/B  G/C 
He said it's loneliness 
           D        G/B  G/C 
And it's killing me 
         D         G/B  G/C 
Oh this loneliness 
                  D    G/B  G/C 
It's bringing me down 



           Am7 
And he'll sleep where the darkness falls 
    C 
He won't get no curtain calls 
          G                     D 
And he's only got one pair of shoes 
         Am7 
But he's got more serenity 
          C 
Than the rest of humanity 
               G                      D 
They've been tricked into waiting in queues 
          Am7 
And his father is dying 
          C 
He's got something inside of him 
    G                              D 
It makes him feel more wrong than right 
         Am7 
And his mother'd be lying 
         C 
If she said she weren't crying 
    G                    D 
Herself to sleep every night.. 
D  G/B  G/C  
           Every night 


D  G/B  G/C (3x) 


Verse: 

    D            G/B            G/C 
He sees a woman waiting at the station steps 
D           G/B             G/C      
 Her conversation fills the air 
D                   G/B              G/C 
 She's telling the world about the trouble she's seen 
D    G/B         G/C 
 But no one can hear 


D  G/B  G/C 


D          G/B       G/C 
 He wanders in to a church with it's doors wide open 
D             G/B              G/C 
 He's welcomed in with a half hearted smile 
D          G/B            G/C 
 Some guy tells him he's found all the answers 
         D                G/B      G/C  
To things like money and drugs and guns 
                     D          G/B    G/C 
Old man says 'What about this loneliness?' 
                  D   G/B  G/C 
Cos it's killing me 
         D         G/B  G/C 
Oh this loneliness 
                  D    G/B  G/C 
It's bringing me down 



      Am7 
I'll sleep where the darkness falls 
   C 
I won't get no curtain calls 
          G                     D 
And I've only got one pair of shoes 
         Am7 
But I've got more serenity 
          C 
Than the rest of humanity 
               G                       D 
They've been tricked into waiting in queues 
        Am7 
And my father is dying 
          C 
He's got something inside of him 
    G                              D 
It makes him feel more wrong than right 
        Am7 
And my mother'd be lying 
         C 
If she said she weren't crying 
    G                    D 
Herself to sleep every night 


Am7   C   G   D (2x) 


        Am7 
And my father is dying 
          C 
He's got something inside of him 
    G                              D 
It makes him feel more wrong than right 
        Am7 
And my mother'd be lying 
         C 
If she said she weren't crying 
    G                    D 
Herself to sleep every night 
D  G/B  G/C  
           Every night 
D  G/B  G/C  
           Every night 
D  G/B  G/C  
           Every night 
D  G/B  G/C 


D     G/B            G/C 
 I'm wandering these city streets 
D                G/B          G/C 
 There's nothing here for me  

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