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Streets Of London Tab

by Ralph Mctell


I love this song, and I just hate it when the whole song don't have all the chords. Enjoy, my friend! 

                                        
    So how can you tell me, you're lo - ne - ly
                                       
  and say for you that the sun don't shine?
                                                  
Let me take you by the hand, and lead you through the streets of London
                                                     
  I'll show you something, to make you change your mind



                                                 
Have you seen the old gal, who walks the streets of London
                                  
dirt in her hair, and her clothes in rags?
                                                
She's no time for talking, she just keeps right on walking
                               
Carrying her home, in two carrier bags


CHORUS:

                                        
    So how can you tell me, you're lo - ne - ly
                                       
  and say for you that the sun don't shine?
                                                  
Let me take you by the hand, and lead you through the streets of London
                                                     
  I'll show you something, to make you change your mind


                                          
And in the all-night cafe, at a quarter past eleven
                                     
some old man sitting there, all on his own
                                           
Looking at the world, over the rim of his tea-cup
                                    
Each day lasts an hour, then he wanders home alone

CHORUS:

                                        
    So how can you tell me, you're lo - ne - ly
                                       
  and say for you that the sun don't shine?
                                                  
Let me take you by the hand, and lead you through the streets of London
                                                     
  I'll show you something, to make you change your mind


                                                  
And have you seen the old man, outside the seaman's mission?
                                               
His memory's fading, with those medal ribbons that he wears
                                           
And in our winter city, the rain cries little pity
                                                  
For one more forgotten hero, and a world that doesn't care

                                        
    So how can you tell me, you're lo - ne - ly
                                       
  and say for you that the sun don't shine?
                                                  
Let me take you by the hand, and lead you through the streets of London
                                                     
  I'll show you something, to make you change your mind



Elise