Spraypaint Backalley chords by 
Damien Dempsey 
Key: E major•
Intro 1
B
F#m
A
F#m
A
Verse 1
B
Don't
F#m
let's play paint by gully
A
F#m
I look up at the sky
B
F#m
And I see through red eyes
A
F#m
The seagulls wail around and around
B
F#m
Worn out couches and fridges
A
F#m
And mongrel dogs roam free
B
F#m
There are rags and there are riches
A
F#m
A
In side this head for me
B
F#m
We drink cheap English cider
A
An d smoke hashish
F#m
B
from North Africa
F#m
I've been trying to get the mix right,
A
F#m
but I haven't got it right
B
F#m
A
F#m
to night.
B
F#m
I've a fifteen year old moustache
A
F#m
I'm so desperate for to be a man
B
F#m
People tell me shave it off
A
F#m
If I shave it I'm a boy again
B
F#m
Watch my father and my brother
A
E
Fix in' old cars
B
F#m
And their rough oil -stained hands
A
F#m
Are skilled and scarred
B
F#m
Oh -oh -o h -oh -oh -oh -oh -o h -oh -oh -oh -oh,
A
F#m
B
oh oh -oh -oh
F#m
Behind this big rusty shed door
A
F#m
There's a punch bag and a claddled car
B
F#m
As the car sits on breezeblocks
A
The punchbag takes
F#m
some heavy shots
B
F#m
Down the laneway sniffing petrol
A
F#m
I thought pebbledash was snow
B
F#m
As I stumble in a blizzard,
A
F#m
the pain inside me disappears
B
F#m
A
Across the city, down the alleys,
F#m
a thousand kids like me
B
F#m
They are watching through red eyes
A
F#m
A flock of little birds
B
gracefully glid ing by
F#m
A
F#m
Oh, oh, oh, oh...
B
Fought in the rain
F#m
Lost in the rain
A
Swallowed the shame
F#m
Then we fought again
B
Fought in the rain
F#m
Cried in the rain
A
Swallowed the pain
F#m
And we fought again
B
There in the lane
F#m
Knocked my cup in the lane
A
Died in the lane
F#m
E
C#m
B
E
C#m
Made my life again
B
E
C#m
B
G#m
We are all in the gutter
C#m
But some of us are
F#
F#m
Look ing at the stars
E
C#m
B
G#m
We are all in the gutter
C#m
But some of us are look
F#
ing at the stars
F#m
E
C#m
B
G#m
We are gone in the good times
C#m
But some of us are
F#
F#m
Look ing at the stars
F#
E
C#m
B
We are gone in the glitter
G#m
C#m
of some marble sun
F#
E
Look ing at the stars, the stars
E
Oh, the stars, the stars
TunerE A D G B E
ChordsB F#m A E C#m...
B
F#m
A
E
C#m
G#m
F#
Capo: 2
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