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 (tim_prizer@yahoo.com)
***[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
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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
