Suicide Town

[alistairhulett]

Hi Cameron, I'll eventually get round to posting the two songs you've asked about in the songbook, but here's some stuff to be going on with...
Suicide Town: There's two recorded versions.
The one on Dance Of The Underclass is played in a G modal tuning with a capo at 2nd fret, which means its pitched in A. The tuning is DGDGCC.
The second version on Cold Grey Light Of Dawn is also in A but the guitar is tuned DADEAB.
Recently I've been doing it in Standard Tuning and that's how I'm setting it out here. G shapes capo at 2nd fret (A).

Intro: G / /|G5 / / |G/C / / |G/C / / |G / / |G / D | G / / |G / / | X2

V.1&3: G / / |G/C / / |G / / |G / D7 |G / / |D7 / / |G / / |G / / |
D / / |D / / |G/C / / |G / / |G / / |G / / |G/C / / |G/C / / |
D / / |G / / |G/C / / |G / / |G/C / / |G/C / / |
G / / |G / / |G/C / / |G/C / / |G..intro

V.2&4:G / / |G/C / / |G / D |G / / |G / / |D7 / / |G / / |G / / |
Then as in V.1&3

Bridge: D / / |D / / |C / / |G / / |
G / / |G / / |G/C / / |G / / |
D / / |D / / |C / / |G / /|
G / / |G/C / / |G / / |G / / | X2

Solo and 2nd bridge is AS ABOVE x1

G/C is 3X0213 G5 is 32003X

Hope this helps. Holler if you need more.
Ally

[folklounge]

I'm not sure if folks are still using this great resource, but I have matched (roughly) Alistair's chords above for the simpler guitar players like myself.

SUICIDE TOWN
(Alistair Hulett)

        G             C         G
The seagulls are wheeling and haggling
        D         G             D7         G
Over takeaway scraps on the main drag at dawn
        D                   C
Some black-eyed susan walks up
        G             C
And asks me if I'd like to get off or get on
        D             G
I've been up for so long
            C         G         C
I don't think I'll ever come down
        G             D
This life's just a bruise
            C              G
On the surface of Suicide Town

Outside the clip joint, The tuxedo thugs
    G              D             G
are kicking some drunk in the brains
Armed to the teeth with wild animal logic
Of the terminally insane
They knock off at six
Then they're in at Anchor & Crown
Where the old fellows toast the new morning
In Suicide Town

D
Singing, where have you gone
    C                 G
Mrs Brown's lovely daughter
G
Gone from the meat market
    C         G
Down to the abattoir
D
So many had her
        C     G
And nobody caught her
    G             C      G
And one day she floated away

And where are you now
Mrs Brown's lovely daughter?
'I drowned in the ocean of God's holy water
All me wee lambs
They were led to the slaughter
And then I just floated away'

The squad cars hiss over the asphalt
And circle around
Like sharks in the rain
No one looks at them directly
We watch their reflection
In shop window panes
Give them a gun
And a badge they can wear like a frown
And they'll make sure it's business as usual
In Suicide Town

Oh dear,
what can the matter be
There goes another ambulance
Off to the cemetery
Dumping off more of
The victims of chemistry
Nobody knew they were there

Down at the cab rank
We all stand in line
        G         D       G
In the alfresco casualty ward
There's no conversation
There's only small talk
Most of it's wild and absurd
I wish I was home
I can't sleep but I'd love to lie down
And watch the amphetamine replay
Of Suicide Town

And the seagulls are wheeling and haggling
Over takeaway scraps on the main drag at dawn