Tom: B
Intro: B (x2)
(B A E B)
B
Life is wicked in wino city
A
Life down here just ain't pretty
E
We get down to the "Nitty Gritty"
B
You can smell the stench of vagabond city
B
Life used to be sex smack and tears
A
For a dirty hero playin' guitars for those years
E
To make a few quid for breakfast at Sids
B
And a pack o' ten tabs for me n' my missus
G
An all those people hit me
F#
They just knock me down
B G B
In cardboard town come on down cardboard town
F# Em
Where everyone gets down down
From the Irish to the rich that have fallen from grace
To the battered wife took one too many on the face
The husband is drunk n' so absurd
To the people who give up on the world
An all those people hit me
They just knock me down
In cardboard town come on down cardboard town
Where everyone gets down down
solo: B A (x6)
(Em)
Down in the gutter sleepin' with the dogs
Talkin' to the fleas rats n' the hogs
Drinkin' the grain that'll rot my brain
Leavin' thunderbird city on the next nightrain
An all those people hit me
They just knock me down
In cardboard town come on down cardboard town
Whre every one gets down down
Come on down irish n' slick guys hang around
25 cents if you got any sense
