Notes: First two chords precede the lyric third chord is played across the line.
E-B A-- >>>
Dave was from out of town
E-B A-- >>>
Manchester's likely too
D-A E -- >>>
Had read De Sade to Marx
D-A E -- >>>
More read than me and you
E-B A -- >>>
Scaffolding pays good bread
E-B A -- >>>
It pays for drugs and kicks
D-A E -- >>>
Dave only had one love
D-A E -- >>>
Had no real need for chicks
F#-G# A -- >>>
Dave was so far ahead
F#G# A -- >>> -- B
But now he's dead
<chorus>
E-B A -- >>>
I'm not going to cry
D-A B -- >>>
I bet he hit that water high
<verse2>
E-B A -- >>>
I guess he lost control
E-B A -- >>>
And welcomed in the night
D-A E -- >>>
It was too much for him
D-A E -- >>>
What were his thoughts that night ?
E-B A -- >>>
The River Thames is cold
E-B A -- >>>
It keeps on flowing on
D-A E -- >>>
But it left Dave alone
D-A E -- >>>
It just kept flowing on
F#-G# A -- >>>
There's city sickness here
F#-G# A -- >>> -- B
But now he's dead
<repeat chorus>
<middle eight type bit!>
G#m - A - B - C#
Late night a street in the west of the city
G#m - A - B - C#
There was a place there where he lost himself
G#m - A - B - C#
Strange feelings did he feel there
G#m - A - B - C#
Strange people did he meet there Angry sounds did he hear there
B
Like the howling of bulls
<last chorus>
E-B A -- >>>
I'm not going to cry
D-A E -- >>>
I bet he hit that water high
E-B A -- >>>
I'm not going to cry
D-A JUMPS TO END SECTION ( No G chord)
I bet he hit that water high
<end section - keyboard solo>
G -- C (X2)
D -- F (X2)
G -- C (X2)
D -- F (X2)
D -- F slows down -- G
END
