Streets Of London chords by Country Beat Jiřího Brabce, George Hamilton IV

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Intro 1

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Verse 1
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Have you seen the old   man
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in the closed -down market
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Kicking at the paper
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with his worn -out shoe?
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In his eyes you see no pride,
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an  d held loosely at his   side,
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Yesterday's paper telling
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yesterday's news.
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Have you seen the old girl
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who walks the streets of London,
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E 
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Dirt in her hair and her clothes in rags?
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She's no time for talking,
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she just keeps right on walking
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Carrying her home into carrier bags
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How can you tell me you're lonely?
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Save for you that the sun don't shine
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Let me take you by the   hand,
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lead you through the streets of London
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I'll show you something
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to make you change your mind
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In the all -night cafe
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at a quarter past eleven
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Same old man sittin'
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there on his own
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Lookin' at the world
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over the rim of his tea   cup
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Each tea lasts one hour,
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and he wanders home alone
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Have you seen the old man
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outside the seaman's mis   sion?
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Memory fading
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with the metal ribbons that he wears
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In our winter city
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the rain cries so little pity
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On one more forgotten hero
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and a world that doesn't care
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Bm 
How can you tell me you're lonely?
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To say for you that the sun don't shine
D 
F#m 
Let me take you by the hand
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Lead you through the streets of London
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D 
I'll show you something
A 
D 
To make you change your mind
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I'll show you something
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I hope we'll change your mind