{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":824851,"song":"Nw3","artist":"The Pogues","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/824851-nw3-chords-by-the-pogues/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/824851?type=chord","rating":0,"votes":0,"content":"Well now this is from the Box \"Look them straight in the eye and say\r\nPogue...Mahone\". \r\nThe previously unreleased masterpiece NW3. No one knows\r\nwhy it's never been recorded properly even though Pogues members themselves\r\nsay it's probably one of Shane MacGowans best songs. \r\nThe chords are from the much less sophisticated song \"Mother Mo Chro\", you \r\nmay have noticed it's the same melody. \r\n\r\nI hear there also is another version with slightly different lyrics, \r\nhowever this is the one with the lyrics from the more common version from \r\nsaid CD-Box. \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nCapo 2\r\n\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt was 1962[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI was two years out of school[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch] \r\nWhen I got on board a boat[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nthat was bound for Liverpool[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe day I went away[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI remember it so well[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nSaid goodbye to the North Wall[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd bid a fond farewell[/tab]\r\n\r\nWhen I got down to the smoke\r\nIt was 1963\r\nI got a job doing meals on wheels\r\nRound NW3\r\nI was terrorising grannies\r\nFor ten lousy bob a week\r\nI was smashed and blacked\r\nAnd drunk and young in NW3\r\n\r\nIn the filth and piss they lived in\r\nThey would sometimes hum an air\r\nOr talk in tongues of madness\r\nKeeping time upon the chair\r\nAnd for their wrists a numbered tab\r\nIn Westminster morgue\r\nOn a cold hard slab\r\nWhen I was still a young man\r\nIn NW3\r\n\r\nNow spent of love and rage\r\nI'm going home again\r\nNever did nobody wrong\r\nNever turned a decent wage\r\nSo thanks for sweet fuck all\r\nonce more back to the north wall\r\nSaid goodbye to all of that\r\nAnd bid a fond farewell\r\n\r\nAt the top of the Pentonville Road\r\nI watched the sun setting\r\nThe town spread out before me\r\nLooked beautiful to me\r\nAway from all the sighing\r\nThe suffering and the dying\r\nI dreamed of the future\r\nOf the young and the free\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]             \r\nBut the years they went by quickly[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nNow I swear I won't return here[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhere each day just bring me closer[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nTo the final misery[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nMy kids will never scrape shit round here[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd I won't die crying in a pint of beer[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nOr eat their stinking meals on wheels[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIn NW3.[/tab]","plain_text":"Well now this is from the Box \"Look them straight in the eye and say\nPogue...Mahone\". \nThe previously unreleased masterpiece NW3. No one knows\nwhy it's never been recorded properly even though Pogues members themselves\nsay it's probably one of Shane MacGowans best songs. \nThe chords are from the much less sophisticated song \"Mother Mo Chro\", you \nmay have noticed it's the same melody. \n\nI hear there also is another version with slightly different lyrics, \nhowever this is the one with the lyrics from the more common version from \nsaid CD-Box. \n\n\n\nCapo 2\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen I got down to the smoke\nIt was 1963\nI got a job doing meals on wheels\nRound NW3\nI was terrorising grannies\nFor ten lousy bob a week\nI was smashed and blacked\nAnd drunk and young in NW3\n\nIn the filth and piss they lived in\nThey would sometimes hum an air\nOr talk in tongues of madness\nKeeping time upon the chair\nAnd for their wrists a numbered tab\nIn Westminster morgue\nOn a cold hard slab\nWhen I was still a young man\nIn NW3\n\nNow spent of love and rage\nI'm going home again\nNever did nobody wrong\nNever turned a decent wage\nSo thanks for sweet fuck all\nonce more back to the north wall\nSaid goodbye to all of that\nAnd bid a fond farewell\n\nAt the top of the Pentonville Road\nI watched the sun setting\nThe town spread out before me\nLooked beautiful to me\nAway from all the sighing\nThe suffering and the dying\nI dreamed of the future\nOf the young and the free","chords":["G","C","D","Em"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}