The Right Permits

     A             E        F#m  
Every house on the block got sold
       D
 to the city
      A             E         F#m
It’s sad, but some offers you 
        D
just can’t refuse
      A             E         F#m
Mortar and brick once towering 
        D
tall
       A       E             D   
When a city is changing, you 
          A
can’t have it all

[Chorus]
        A            E            
Now the building’s a bike shop 
   F#m        D
where we went to high school
      A            E       F#m   
The house where my mother lived 
        D
is a restaurant
Continúa después del anuncio
    A           E             F#m
The old public housing holds 
        D
gallery art walks
    A            E             D 
The tourists all ask where the 
           A
wine tasting is

[Bridge]
            F#m       A           
And all the pneumatic drills and 
   E             Dm Dm
old bribes in the paper
            F#m      A   E       
Machinery thrashing and blowing 
   Dm Dm
off steam
     F#m        A           E    
Big business and councilmen 
         Dm Dm
laughing about it
          F#m      A              
If you’ve got the permits, you can
E               Dm
 do what you please

[Chorus]

        A          E           
Now the bulldozers tumble out 
F#m        D
over the rocks
        A          E             
And the mold in the clapboard is 
F#m        D
making me sick
     A          E          F#m   
Some worker in denim keeps 
     D
calling me Linda
        A          E           D 
I sign all his papers, but that’s
        A
 not my name

  A          E         D         
I pocket his money and then walk 
A
away