Gates Of The West Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro riff

(repeats 4 times)

 IC would love to be the lucky one on Chill Avenue

 WAmho could keep your hear warm when ice has turned it blue

 BGut with the beggin' sleeping losers as they turn in for the night

 IC'm looking back for home and I can see the lights

 IC should be jumpin' shoutin' that I made it all this way

 >AmFrom Camden Town Station to 44th and 8th

 NGot many make it this far and many say we're great

 BCut just like them we walk on an' we can't escape our fate

 CAman't you hear the siFghing G

 ECastside Jimmy and SoFuthside Sue

 BGoth say they needed somethiCsus4ng new C

Chorus

 SCo I'm standing at the gates of the West

 IEm burn money at the lights of the sign

 TFhe cityG casts a shadowC of the perfect crime

I'm standing at the gates of the East

 IEm take my pulse and the pulse of my friend

 TFhe city Gcasts a shadow, wCill I see you again?

The immigrants an' remnants of all the glory years

Are clustered around the bar again for another round of beers

Little Richard's in the kitchen playing spoons and plates

He's telling the waitress he's great

Ah say I know somewhere back'n'forth in time

Out on the dustbowls, deep in the roulette mine

Or in a ghetto cellar only yesterday

There's a move into the future for the U.S.A.

I hear them crying

Eastside Jimmy and Southside Sue

Both say they needed something new

Chorus

C Em Em Am Am F F

C Em Em Am Am F F

C Em Em Am Am F F C

(with chords from chorus)

Standing at the gates of the West

In the shadow again

Standing at the gates of the West

In the shadow again

In the shadow again