The Ballad of Grimaldi chords by Peter Doherty

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Em
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C
D
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Bm
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A
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Verse 1
Am 
Em 
Am 
While there's still
B 
Em 
C 
B 
a fighting chance
D 
Em 
Am 
Can't you just get up and go
C 
B 
Em 
Am 
And get away from this hollow romance
B 
D 
Em 
It's slowly binding us both
Am 
Because you'll tell

Verse 2
me what you
C 
Em 
C 
want and I'll avoid it
D#dim 
Tell     it to the sick and to
Em 
Am 
the damned
Show me what you love,
Em 
watch me destroy it
B 
D 
Em 
For love just crumbles in my hands
B 

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Verse 3

But if you stay for a while

I'll try to think of something

kind to say

And maybe if we pray for a while

St. Jude might hear my please

And see me on my bended knees

Verse 4
C 
Because she knows how I adore you
Em 
B 
We won't be fighting again tonight
C 
Not if she knows I adore you
D 
There won't be no fighting
B 
Bm 
Am 
in the streets
Em 
I laugh and fall just like Grimaldi

Verse 5
C 
B 
Am 
You wear your make- up
Em 
Am 
like Baby Jane
B 
Em 
C 
All of those promising lies that you told me
B 
Am 
Come on and tell me them again
Em 
Am 

Verse 6
Em 
Oh well, I walked these streets all of my life
B 
D 
Em 
Am 
The fear and hope at every turn
She took him to Stepney
Em 
and made him a wife
C 
B 
Oh you know yeah you know
D#dim 
Em 
they'll crash and burn
Am 
Because she'll

Verse 7
tell him what she
C 
Em 
C 
wants and he'll avoid it
B 
Am 
D 
Em 
D 
Tell it to the sick and to the damned
Am 
Show him what you love,
F 
B 
Em 
B 
watch him destroy it
D#dim 
D 
Em 
For love seems to crumble  in his hands
B 

Verse 8
C 
But if you stay for a while
I'll try to think of something
G 
nice to say
C 
Maybe we could pray for a while
Em 
B 
St. Jude might hear my please
And see me on my knees