Capo 1st fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Well I'm down here in the well

 Looking back up at the hill

Well I thank heavens I fell

 Must look more like myself

 Now everyone is so kind

 Everyone looks like a long lost friend of mine

I'm on top of the world again

 When I'm looking up from under Babylon

I had a home in the fields

Earned my wage in the factories there

And I was raised by the mill

And I worked with my brothers there

I told my mother I'd always write

I headed west for the coast with the big city lights

Now mamma I'm so sorry I've forgotten

But now I'm looking up from under Babylon

Now tell me how far I've been

And how deep was I in

Tell me how I conceived

The vanity to believe

 That I would not be outnumbered

 By the thumbs I have been under

Now stray dogs in the street

Learn how to beg, steal, borrow and cheat

And in the dead summer heat I fell asleep with blood on my teeth

But those days before I met you girl

Were just ice cream falling down on the shoes of my world

I'm so happy that you're my friend

When we're looking up from under Babylon

When we're looking up from under Babylon