Toy Factory Fire chords by Don McGlashan
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Intro 1
(D major) (G major) (B minor) (G major) (D major) (G major)
(B minor) (G major)
Verse 1
(D major) Here's Bart Simpson,
with his (G major) arms all melted and twis (B minor) ted (G major)
And (D major) here's one of Big Bird,
with his (G major) feathers all matted and black
(B minor) (E minor) (B minor) (G major) And here (F sharp minor) are
the rows (E minor) of young women
(F sharp minor) Wrapped up in bolts of (A major) white (E minor) nylon
And the (D major) families from the countryside
(G major) come to take their daughters back
Verse 2
(G major)
I look (D major) up from my desk as the (G major) light
turns the Hudson to (B minor) mercury (G major)
The (D major) rest of the office are (G major) getting
ready to (B minor) leave (G major)
But it's (F sharp minor) 10 years since (A major) the fire (E minor)
The (F sharp minor) Toy Factory (E minor) fire
It's (D major) going to be one of those (G major)
Verse 3
weeks; I roll up my sleeves
(G major)
They (F major) said it was a death-
trap (C major) from a text- book
(B minor) Fire Exits just painted (G major) on
(B minor) Locks and chains to keep out the (G major) unions
And (F major) piles of (C major) (F major) white (G major) nylon
(C major) all around
(D major)
Verse 4
(C major) But we've (F major) built a (C major) dozen (F major) more
to fill our (C major) orders
We've (B minor) had to keep moving (G major) around
Since (B minor) May (G major) 10th 1993
When the (F major) Kader (C major) (F major) Toy (G major) Factory (C major) burnt
Interlude 1
down
(D major) (G major) (B minor) (G major) (D major) (G major)
(B minor) (G major)
Verse 5
A (D major) fire in Thailand could (G major) be
a bus crash in (B minor) Africa (G major)
The (D major) stories weren't big; they did not
(G major) make the six o'clock news (B minor) (G major)
But the (A major) pic (F sharp minor) tures (A major) were something
else (E minor)
They could have (F sharp minor) rid den
us down to hell (E minor)
(D major) I knew this was a fight we
couldn't (G major) afford to lose
Verse 6
(G major)
They (F major) said it (C major) was (F major) a death-
trap (C major) from a text- book
(B minor) Fire Exits just painted (G major) on
(B minor) Locks and chains to keep out the (G major) unions
And (F major) piles of (C major) (F major) white (G major) nylon
all around
(D major)
Verse 7
But we've (F major) built a (C major) dozen more (F major)
(C major) to fill our orders
We've (B minor) had to keep moving (G major) around
Since (B minor) May 10th 1993
When the (G major) (F major) Kader Toy (G major) Factory burnt down
(B minor)
Interlude 2
(Bsus4) (B minor) (C major)
(B minor)
(C major)
(B minor)
Verse 8
(D major) I look at the photographs once (G major) more
in the Manhattan sun (B minor) set (G major)
The (D major) same light falls on the (G major) one of my wife
and my kid (B minor) s (E minor) (B minor) (G major)
Then (F sharp minor) I put them back in (A major) the file (E minor)
(A major) Permit (F sharp minor) myself (A major) a smile (E minor)
(D major) Keeping them hidden was the
(G major) be st work I ever did
Verse 9
(G major)
'Cause (D major) people like us,
we do (G major) make the world (B minor) better (G major)
And if (D major) it's better for us,
it's (G major) better for everyone
(B minor) (G major) I (D major) open the window to the
(G major) rush hour sirens on (B minor) West Street (G major)
I (D major) see the Power and the Glory (G major) all
(B minor) (G major) over this (D major) town (G major) (B minor)
(G major)
All over this (D major) town
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Toy Factory Fire
Don McGlashan
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