Emerald Street Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Am]
[G][C][F][Am][G][C][G][F]
[Am]

[Verse 1]
Pregnant teens on the Barton [Am]street bus
Homeless people [F]liv[Am]ing off crust
And there's a beat-up town town car,
it's starting to rust
Hard soles are kicking up dust
Half a million people living in the corpse
[G]of the brown [F]brick [Am]50's
To the north, all the small town outcasts
are now big city [Em]bourgeoisie

[Verse 2]
All the boys in the [Em]halfway houses
[F]Wave to the girls of Emerald [Am]Street

[Verse 3]
Our calloused [Am]fingers, blood [G]red on the brick,
but [F]we hold [Am]on (hold on)
We'll never falter, though they [G]want us to slip,
[F]we hold on (hold on)

[Verse 4]
[F]The[Am][G][C][G][F][Am]
[G]des[C]per[G]ate[F],[Am]
downtown stealing bikes
[G]Drunks in the village are picking fights[F]
So, po[Am]lice like the streets
to read them their rights
[G]No controlling hot sum[C]mer nig[G]hts
[F]The sun [Am]goes down on the edge of town,
at the end [G]of [F]everyday
[Am]We sit and watch the stacks on fire,

[Verse 5]
to the east across the bay
[Em]
All the boys in the halfway houses
[F]Wave to the girls of Emerald [Am]Street

[Verse 6]
Our calloused [Am]fingers, blood [G]red on the brick,
but [F]we hold on (hold on)
[Am]We'll never falter, though they want[G] us to slip,
[F]we hold on (hold[Am]on)

[Interlude 1]
[G][C][Am]

[Verse 7]
There's something in [Am]the
church [G]belfry[F]
[Am]On the corner of Victoria
and [G]king[F]
[Am]And it screams out into
[G]the night[C][F]
[Am]It sings this city's
plight
[G][C][F]

[Verse 8]
[Em]
All the boys in the halfway houses
[F]Wave to the girls of Emerald [Am]Street

[Verse 9]
[Am]
Hold [G]on, [F]hold on[Am]

[Verse 10]
Our calloused [Am]fingers, blood [G]red on the brick,
but [F]we hold on (hold on)
[Am]We'll never falter, though they want[G] us to slip,
[F]we hold on (hold on)

[Outro 1]
[F][Am][G][C][F][Am]
[G][C][F]