Forbidden City Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mescaleros
Song: Forbidden City
Written: Joe Strummer
Album: Rock Art and the X-Ray Style
Background: From the debut album released by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros in 1999.
Author: Richard Grosser (grosserr@gmail.com)
Tuning: Standard with Capo on 2nd fret
(Hence all chords are up two semitones, or a tone)
Chords:
C: ======= 332010
F7: ======= 131211
G: ======= 355433
Am: ======= 002210
Notes:
1. Totally revised from my previously posted 2008 version.
2. Where the chords are shown with triplets in brackets (e.g. x3)
...it's a quick, forceful(forte) staccato rhythmic chords.
Intro:
(Tom-Tom & Bongos, over organ riff, with arpeggiated chords)
| C F7 G F7 |
Okay, dream of freedom...
| C F7 G F7 | C (x3)
Verse 1:
[C]Under the moon in the dragon [F7]room,
[G7]Inside the mind of a [F7]soul [C]confined.
[C]Don't talk about soon in the dragon [F7]room,
[G]Under the scream of a [F7]jet machi[C]ne.
F7(x3) G(x3) F7(x3)
Who knows in the hills,
Am(x3) F7(x3) G(x3) G
Who knows when she will.
Chorus 1:
[Am]When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes [F7]out,
[Am]When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes [F7]out,
[Am]When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes [F7]out,
[Am]When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes [G]out,
C F7 C G(x3) F7(x3) C(x3)
...Oh, China, Yeah, China.
Verse 2:
[C]Gold silk in a loom in the dragon [F7]room,
[G]That silk that will be for the f[F7]lag of the [C]free.
F7(x3) G(x3) F7(x3)
Who knows in the hills,
Am(x3) F7(x3) G(x3) G
Who knows when she will.
Chorus 2:
[Am]When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes [F7]out,
[Am]When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes [F7]out,
[Am]When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes [F7]out,
[Am]When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes [G]out.
[F7]Oh, [C]China, [F7]Yeah, [C]China.
[F7]Oh, [C]China, [F7]Yeah, [C]China.
Instrumental:
G(x3) F7(x3)
Yeah, they got lots of towers,
(Organ riff over muffled gunfire)
[Am]' Never pushed someone so fa[F7]r.
[Am] [F7]
Chorus 3:
[Am]When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes [F7]out,
[Am]When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes [F7]out,
[Am]When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes [F7]out,
[Am]When all the hidden pity in the forbidden city comes [G]out,
Coda:
...Oh, C[C]h-i-na
[(End)]
Footnote:
This is an even more timely song, Joe! Especially, in 2012. :-R
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