Life In A Tenement Square

make it, though.  If you have 
accordion, tin whistle, fiddle, and 
electric guitar
players, you don't have to play 
everything I have here.  I'm just 
including all
the parts I was able to figure out, 
with thanks to my guitar teacher for
 helping
me with the electric guitar solo.
As usual, ^=bend, /=slide up, 
\=slide down, h=hammer on, p=pull 
off.

Life in a Tenement Square


Intro:  (strum on an acoustic)

Am   C   D   G
Am   C   E
   _________________   
____________________________________________________
  |    Accordion    | |Tin whistle 
lead:                               
    |
e--0------------------------------
B-----3--1--3--1--0------------1--
G----------------------2---0h2----
D---------------------------------
A---------------------------------
E---------------------------------

e|---------------------------------
B|-0-1-3---0--0h1p0------------1---
G|------------------0--2---0-2-----
D|---------------------------------
A|---------------------------------
E|---------------------------------

e|-------- 
B|0h1p0--- 
G|------2- 
D|-------- 
A|-------- 
E|-------- 

Repeat intro chords

Accordion:
e--0-----------------------------
B----3-1-3-1-0-1-0-------0-1---0-
G------------------2---2---------
D--------------------------------
A--------------------------------
E--------------------------------

e|----------------------------------
B|1-3---1-0---0---0---------1-------
G|----------0---0---2-----------0---
D|----------------------------------
A|----------------------------------
E|----------------------------------

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2-- 
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Tin whistle: (with distorted chords)
   A5     C5    D5    G5        
e--5--7p5-------------------------
B---------8---5-------------------
G---------------7-----7--4h5p4----
D-------------------7----------7--
A---------------------------------
E---------------------------------
  A5    D5    E5
e|--------------- 
B|----------5---- 
G|----5--7------- 
D|5h7------------ 
A|--------------- 
E|--------------- 


   A5      C5    D5    G5        
e--5---7p5-----------------------
B----------8---5-----------------
G----------------7-----7---4h5p4-
D--------------------7-----------
A--------------------------------
E--------------------------------
  A5      C5 G5    A5
e|------------------- 
B|------------------- 
G|--------5--4h5p4--- 
D|7---5h7----------7- 
A|------------------- 
E|------------------- 


Verse 1:

        Am         C         D   
Well I kissed the day, I was on 
   G
my way
            Am         C         E
From those cold grey blocks of stone
     Am        C          D 
For seventeen years of squalor 
           G
filled tears
   Am           C    G     Am
A time now with innocence lost
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        C                          
As the sun split the room with its 
 G
rays filled with gloom
 Am                     E7
Turnin' all hope to despair
        Am          C           D
And the only thing left was to 
             G
flee from the nest
          Am        C   G     Am
That was life in a Tenement Square

Interlude:

Am   C   D   G
Am   C   G   Am

Verse 2:

I remember the song where the rats 
sang along
And danced for their daily bread
While the damp washed the walls that
 were twenty feet tall
Not a child in the house was fed

On the porter filled face of the men
 left no trace
Of the coin they had already spent
While our mothers asked God what was
 Hell ever for
When you lived in a Tenement Square


Bridge:

             G                   
Grab what's left of the coal from 
     Am
the ole cubbyhole
       G                         Am
These cinders need more to be a fire
            G                   
While the ghosts of the soldiers 
       Am
that lived there before us
 C                G             Am
Laugh with their guns by their sides
             C                 G  
I hear them laugh, with their guns
           Am
 by their sides

Solo: (play it messily!)
e-----8---8---10---8\----3---3---
B--------------------------------
G--/9---9---9----9----/4---4---4-
D--------------------------------
A--------------------------------
E--------------------------------

e|5---3----- 
B|---------- 
G|--4------- 
D|---------- 
A|---------- 
E|---------- 

e------8----10----11----12----13-
B--------------------------------
G---/9---10----11----12----13----
D--------------------------------
A--------------------------------
E--------------------------------

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

e--15---15----12-----------8--7--
B-------13^---10^---8------8--8--
G--------------------------------
D--------------------------------
A--------------------------------
E--------------------------------

e|5--8^--8^--5---- 
B|5--8^--8^--5---- 
G|---------------- 
D|---------------- 
A|---------------- 
E|---------------- 

Verse 3:

Now politicians they dwell in that 
forgotten Hell
Our misery's been turned into news
Where the fat of the land now hog, 
hand in hand
A crime now of life was ever true

As the sun split the room with its 
rays filled with gloom
Turnin' all hope to despair
And the only thing left was to flee 
from the nest
That was life in a Tenement Square


Repeat Accordion/Tin whistle intro


This is still one of my favorite 
songs ever.  Have fun playing it!