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The city weeps tonight chords by
Little Steven
Little Steven

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Intro 1
C
Am
F
G
C
Am

F
G
C
Am
F

G
C
Am
F


G
Thank you so much.
Verse 1
C
G
Am
F
G

C
G

Am
G
F

We're to take you all the way back now,

back at the very begin
G
C

ning of rock and roll.
G
Am
F

Be fore it was even called rock and roll.
G

At first, it was called race music,
C
G
Am

and then R &B,
F
G

long before it was called rock and roll.
Am
F

In the beginning, four or five kids
Am
F
G

down on the street corner
C
Am

and harmonized with each other.
F

They didn't need no instruments,
G

no money,
Am

no agents, lawyers, managers,
F
G

didn't matter what gender they were,


what race, what religion,
C
G
Am
F

but they discovered that

by harmonizing with other
G

it created this magical vibration
C
G
Am

an d they knew it made
F

him feel good
G

but they didn't know why
C

but they knew that they could not achieve
Am
F
G

that kind of magic on their own needed

to interact with other people
C
G
Am

for that kind of special magic.
F

An d that magic was
G

so strong
C
G

it would end up giving birth
Am

to the entire rock
F

and roll industry that followed.
G
C

That's why we're here today.
G
F
Am
F

The problem was in America in

the early 50s
G

you had black radio

and you had white radio
C
Am
F

an d most of the kids harmonizing
G

were black

and it took the courage
Am
F

of some very important white DJs
G

like Alan Freed
C
Am

to play that black mu sic

for some white kids
F
G
C
Am
F

an d the minute those
G

white kids
F

heard that black music

and absorbed it
G

the whole world changed
C
G
Am
F

and they crucified Alan Freed for
G
C

do ing that he died a broken man,
Am
F

but we all owe him a great

debt of gratitude
G

and others like him.
C

Those days of innocence
G
Am
F

can never be lived again,

but we can visit there

every now and then,
G

remind ourselves of a more
C

innocent time.
Am
F

That's what this song's all about,


we're about to do.
G

because I miss that.
C

I miss that innocence
Am
F

an d I miss that harmonizing

with each other.
G

I wish we had more of that
C
G

in our society these days, you know, just in real life,
Am

you know,

a little bit more harmony,

F
G

you know what saying?
F

Well, this is our tribute to those days,
Am

those great doo -wop groups
F

and those great DJs that played then,
G
C
G

something called The City
C
F
Am

Weeps Tonight.

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