Tibetan Side Of Town
Tibetan Side Of Town

Tibetan Side Of Town easy guitar chords by Bruce Cockburn

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Guitar
Tuning

E A D G B E

Capo

Fret 5

Capo

Transpose

0

Capo

  • Am

  • Bb

  • Bm

    2

  • Bsus4

    2

  • D

  • C

  • Asus4

  • Am

  • Bb

  • Bm

    2

  • Bsus4

    2

  • D

  • C

  • Asus4

    • Intro 1



    Verse 1
    Through 
    rutted 
    winding 

    streets 
    of 
    Kathmandu 

    Dodging 
    crowded 
    humans, 
    cows, 
    dogs, 

    rickshaws 

    Storefronts constellated 
    pools 

    of blue- 
    white 

    Bright 
    against 
    darkening 

    walls 

    Verse 2
    The butterfly 
    sparkle 
    in my 

    lasered eye 
    still 
    seems 

    To hold 
    that 
    last 
    shot 
    of red 
    sun 
    through 

    haze 
    over jumbled 
    roofs 

    Everything 
    moves 
    like 
    slow 

    fluid 
    in this 
    atmosphere 

    Thick 
    as dreams 

    With 
    sewage, 
    incense, 

    dust 
    and fever 
    and the smoke 
    of 
    brick kilns 
    and 
    cremations 

    Verse 3
    Tom 
    Kelly's 
    bike 
    rumbles 
    down 

    We're 
    going 
    drinking 
    on the Tibetan 

    side 
    of 
    town 

    Interlude 1


    Verse 4
    Beggar 
    with 
    withered 
    legs 
    sits 
    sideways 

    on 
    skateboard, grinning 

    There's 
    a joke 
    going 
    on 
    somewhere 

    but we'll 
    never 
    know 

    Those 
    laughing 
    kids 
    with 
    hungry 

    eyes 
    must 
    be 
    in on it, 
    too 

    With their 
    clinging 
    memories 

    of 
    a culture 
    crushed 

    By 
    Chinese 
    greed 

    Verse 5
    Pretty 
    young 
    mother 
    by the 

    temple 
    gate 

    Covers 
    her baby's 
    face 

    against 
    diesel 
    fumes 

    That 
    look of 
    concern, 

    you can 
    see it 
    still 

    Not yet 
    masked 
    by the 
    hard 

    lines 
    of a 
    woman's 

    Struggle 
    to 
    survive 

    Hard 
    Verse 6
    bargains 
    going 
    down 

    When 
    you're liv
    ing 
    on 
    the Tibetan 
    side 
    of town 

    Interlude 2







    Verse 7

    Big 
    red 
    Infield 
    Bullet 
    lurches 

    to 
    a halt 
    in the 
    dust 

    Last 
    blast 
    of 
    engine 
    leaves 

    a ringing 
    in 
    the 
    ears 

    That 
    fades 
    into 
    the 
    rustle 
    of 
    bare 

    feet 
    and slapping 
    sandals 

    And 
    the 
    baritone 
    moan 
    of 
    long 

    bronze 
    trumpets 

    Muffled 
    by 
    monastery 
    walls 

    Verse 8
    Prayer 
    flags 
    crack 
    like 

    whips 
    in 
    the 
    breeze 

    Send
    ing 
    to 
    the world, 

    tonight 
    the message 
    blows 
    east 

    Dark 
    door 
    opens 
    to 
    warm 
    yellow 

    room 
    and 
    there 

    Are these 
    steaming 
    jugs 
    of 
    hot 
    millet 
    beer 

    An
    d I'm 
    sucked 
    into 
    the 

    scene 
    like 
    this 
    liquor 
    up 

    Verse 9
    This 
    bamboo 
    straw 


    Sweet 
    tungba slid
    ing 
    down 

    Drink
    ing 
    on 
    the Tibetan 
    side 


    of 

    town 

    Outro 1


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