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City of the Dead

The Clash
Tab
★4.2(4)

This is tablature — fret positions rather than chord names. Wide lines scroll sideways on their own, so the page never does.

Song

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The Clash - City Of The Dead (Live)

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Tabbed by: N.Coughlan

This is City of the dead off the live album "live from here to eternity"

This song rocks.

Tuning: Standard

Intro:

{Play 2 times}

|------------------------|--------------------------------------------|
|----------12-15---------|----------12--15b--15--15b--15--12----12----|
|-12-12-14-------12-12~--|-12-12-14--------------------------14----12-|
|------------------------|--------------------------------------------|
|------------------------|--------------------------------------------|
|------------------------|--------------------------------------------|

Verse:

G F

This is the City of the dead

e|-----------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------|
D|---------------------3--2----------|
A|-------2--5------------------------|
E|---3------------1------------------|

C G

As we lie side by side in bed

e|-----------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------|
A|---3--2--5-------------2--5--------|
E|--------------------3--------------|

G F

I'd do something else instead

e|-----------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------|
D|---------------------3--2----------|
A|-------2--5------------------------|
E|---3---------------1---------------|

C G

But its the city of the dead

e|-----------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------|
A|---3--2--5------------2--5---------|
E|-------------------3---------------|

C G

We went out kicking around

F C

But you got drunk and and fallen down

C G

An' I wished I could be like you

e|-----------------------|
B|----------------12-----|
G|---12--12---14------12-|
D|-----------------------|
A|-----------------------|
E|-----------------------|

G

With the soho river drinking me down

Repeat the verse two more times

The solo is just a variant of the verse.

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