Artist: The Nightwatchman Song: The Fabled City Album: The Fabled City With most of the song I find that it sounds better to just mute the high e string, but use your own judgment. X2 Me and Harvey shouted slogans in Spanish Like it was our world to win Then they move a plant down a hater Time to bite your tongue again I've seen the fabled city It's streets are paved with gold But an iron fence runs round it It's iron gate is closed X2 What ain't right ain't right he told me But something else passed behind his eyes No he's downtown on his knees washing floors for somebody And quietly biding his time I've seen the fabled city It's streets are paved with gold But an iron fence runs round it It's iron gate is closed C G C G (Same rhythm as main riff) The gas station on Sunset and Crescent I met an angel sad and old She lived in the alley behind the market In the shadows may be hidden from the lord And for a dollar she sang a song Sounded more like a prayer A wish that her dead mother and father Couldn't look down and see her there I've seen the fabled city It's streets are paved with gold But an iron fence runs round it It's iron gate is closed X2 On a wire outside my window There sit one hundred swallows And I suspect that if one flew Then ninety-nine would follow Chords are: () 0 () 3 () 0 () 1 1 0 1 1 2 0 0 2 2 0 2 3 0 2 3 3 0 3 0 1 The Am G F E that ends the second chorus is () 5 () 3 () 1 () 0 5 3 1 0 5 4 2 1 7 5 3 2 7 5 3 2 5 3 1 0