Intro: A F#m Bm E A (strum this A twice)
F#m
There's an angel on the stairs
Bm
(as if you'd even care)
When the lights go up,
E
And the sun has nearly gone down.
A F#m
Did you see him on the street?
Bm
Did you pass him at your feet?
Did you think aloud, "how dare they
E
even look me in the eye'?
D
And he loves the girls.
E
And he loves the boys.
Bm D
Going to make twenty dollars
E
before the weekends over.
A F#m
So set him up,
Bm
Let him fall.
E D
Turn him over in your hands.
A F#m D
God save the King of New Orleans.
A (twice, like in the intro)
F#m
Got a ticket to a show.
Bm
Going to see him take a blow.
When the drunk one said,
E
"Cat Stevens was the greatest singer!"
A (twice)
F#m
And did you kick him in the head?
Bm
Did you see the blood run down?
Did you laugh at all when the
E D
people walked right by and said aloud,
E
"You gutter punks are all the same.
Bm D E
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"Probably make twenty dollars 'fore the weekends over."?
A F#m
So set him up,
Bm
Let him fall.
E D
Turn him over in your hands.
A F#m D
God save the King of New Orleans.
Interlude Riff:
A -5---5---5---5-4-5---5---5---5-4-5-4-|
E ---2---3---5-------2---3---5---------|
G D A G
Radio in my head
D A G
Radio in that car
Bm
Going down again,
D
He's going down again....
A F#m
Anyway you look, anyway you talk it over.
Bm
It's easier to let it slip out of your mind.
E
But it rips your heart out.
A F#m
Then it kicks your head in.
Bm
Just give him one more chance,
E D
Try to see the beauty in his world.
A F#m
All the way in on my hands, in on my feet,
Bm D
and shoulders. Going to make twenty dollars
E
before the weekends over.
A F#m
So set him up,
Bm
Let him fall.
E D
Turn him over in your hands.
A F#m D
God save the King of New Orleans.
A F#m D
God save the King of New Orleans.
