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
"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.