Will Johnson -- "VD City" From the "New Multitudes" record http://www.centro-matic.com/ Music by Will Johnson Lyrics by Woody Guthrie Tabs by Tim Prizer ([email protected]) ***[Asus] is x-0-2-2-3-0 ***[Em7] is 0-2-2-0-3-0 [D] You’ve seen your bright visions of [Asus] glory Where [G] love built your city on [D] high I have [Em7] just seen your cold lower [G] dungeons Where the [D] victims of syph roll [Asus] and cry They are [D] called to this city of [Asus] sorrow To [G] confess all the wrong things [D] they’ve done Their [Em7] teardrops and weeping runs [G] louder Than my [D] city blown down [Asus] by the [D] bombs There’s a [D] street named for every dis[Asus]ease here Syph [G] Alley and Clap Ave[D]nue And the [Em7] whores and their pimps and their [G] victims Crawl [D] past on the curbs in [Asus] my view Once [D] young and once healthy and [Asus] happy Now a [G] whirlpool of raving [D] insane Lost [Em7] here in the wild VD [G]City Where [D] nobody knows you [Asus] by [D] name Your [D] eye is too tested to [Asus] see here Worse than [G] lepers your skin runs [D] with sores Every [Em7] window stands full of lost [G] faces Human [D] wrecks pile the steps and the [Asus] doors Must you [D] pay your way to this [Asus] city With an [G] hour of passion’s de[D]sire I [Em7] pray that I’ll not see your [G] face here Where the [D] millions now burn [Asus] in the [D] fires
