Late Night Maudlin Street

Chords

Low-G Tuning

C, Cmaj7
Winter coming 
G
Winter push on
(push on) 
Oh, winter push on 

C,Cmaj7
Winter is so long 
G
Winter moves on

EmBm7
The last night on Maudlin Street
DEm
Goodbye house, goodbye stairs
EmBm7
I was born here and I was raised here
D6E G7,E
And I took some stick here

C, Cmaj7
Love at first sight
It may sound trite
G, G
But it's true, you know
C, Cmaj7
I could list the detail
Of everything you ever wore or said
G, G
Or how you stood the day
As we spent the 

EmBm7
last night On Maudlin Street
DEm
"Goodbye house, forever!"
EmBm7
I never stole a happy hour
D6E  G7, E 
Around here

C, CMaj7
Where the world's ugliest boy
G
Became what you see
C, Cmaj7G
Here I am - the ugliest man

Em          Bm7
Oh, the last night on Maudlin Street
D Em
Truly I do love you
Em  Bm7D6 E G7,E 
Oh, truly I do love you

C, CMaj7
When I sleep
 G
With that picture of you framed beside my bed
 C, Cmaj7
Oh, it's childish and it's silly
 G
But I think it's you in my room, by the bed
(...yes, I told you it was silly...)

EmBm7
And I know, I took strange pills
DEm
But I never meant to hurt you
EmBm7   D6E(G7,E)
Oh, truly I love you

C, CMaj7
Came home late one night
 G
Everyone had gone to bed
C,Cmaj7
But, you know, no-one stays up for you
I had sixteen stitches
 G
All around my head

EmBm7
Oh, the last bus I missed to Maudlin Street
DEm
So he drove me home in the Van
EmBm7D6E G7,E 
Complaining, "Women only like me for my mind..."

C,Camj7
Don't leave your torch behind
 G,G/F#
A power cut ahead; 1972, you know
 C, Cmaj7
And so we crept through the park
G
No, I cannot steal a pair of jeans off a clothesline
For you

Em       Bm7
But you ... without clothes
DEm
Oh, I could not keep a straight face
EmBm7
Me - without clothes ?
D6E(G7,E)
Well, a nation turns its back and gags...
E
I'm packed

C, Cmaj7
I am moving house
 G
A half-life disappears today
 C,Cmaj7
With "every hag waves me on"
 G
(secretly wishing me gone)
Well, I will be soon

DE
Ooh, I will be soon
DE
I will be soon
DE
I will be soon
DE
Will be soon, I will be soon
C, Cmaj7, G, bbb C, Cmaj7, G, 
Mmm ... I will be soon, I will be soon

EmBm7
There were bad times on Maudlin Street
DEm
They took you away in a police car
Em
Inspector - don't you know ?
    Bm7
Don't you care ?
 D6E(G7,E)
Don't you know - about Love ?

C  Cmaj7
Your gran died
And your mother died
 G
On Maudlin Street
 C, Cmaj7
In pain, and ashamed
With never time to say
 G
those special things ... oh 
  
EmBm7
I took the key from Maudlin Street
DEm
Well, it's only bricks and mortar !
EmBm7D6       E(G7,E)
Oh, oh, truly I love you

(E)
Oh, wherever you are
Wherever you are
C, Cmaj7
Wherever you are
 G
I hope you're singing now
C, Cmaj7
Oh, I do hope 
 G
I hope you're singing now
GmFC
Oh ...