This is pretty easy song once you get the rhythm right, you will need a capo on 5th fret.
Here's chords relative to the 5th fret:
Am [0 2 2 0 x x]
C [3 2 0 0 x x]
F [3 3 2 0 x x]
G [x x 0 2 3 2]
Main riff goes like this (simplified):
Am C F C
E||------------------------|------------------------||
B||------------------------|------------------------||
G||-------0----------0-----|-------0----------0-----||
D||-------2----------0-----|-------2----------0-----||
A||--2-------2--2-------2--|--3-------3--2-------2--||
E||--0-------0--3-------3--|--3-------3--3-------3--||
Try to catch the groove!
[Verse]
Am C F C
Goddamn' Europeans!
Am C F C
Take me back to beautiful England
Am C F C Am C F C
& the grey, damp filthiness of ages & battered books &
C F C F
fog rolling down behind the mountains,
C F C F
on the graveyards, and dead sea-captains.
[Chorus]
Am C F C
Let me walk through the stinking alleys
Am C F C
to the music of drunken beatings,
Am C F C Am C
past the Thames River, glistening like gold
F G
hastily sold for nothing. Nothing.
Here goes little solo, played over the main riff:
E||------------------------|------------------------||
B||------------------------|------------------------||
G||------------------------|------------------------||
D||------------------------|------------------------||
A||------------------------|--3--3--3---------------||
E||--0----0--0--3----3--3--|-----------3----3--3----||
Strum the chords in the last verse:
G F Am
Let me watch night fall on the river,
G F Am
the moon rise up and turn to silver,
G F Am
the sky move, the ocean shimmer,
G F
the hedge shake, the last living rose
Am C F C
quiver.
Am C F C
