The Clash 'Gates of the West' Intro riff: --------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------- --------3--3--------------------3--3--------- --3--5--------5--5--3--3--5--5--------5--5--- (repeats 4 times)

^CI would love to be the lucky one on Chill Avenue ^AmWho could keep your hear warm when ice has turned it blue ^GBut with the beggin' sleeping losers as they turn in for the night ^CI'm looking back for home and I can see the lights

^CI should be jumpin' shoutin' that I made it all this way ^AmFrom Camden Town Station to 44th and 8th ^GNot many make it this far and many say we're great ^CBut just like them we walk on an' we can't escape our fate

^AmCan't you hear the ^Fsighing^G ^CEastside Jimmy and ^FSouthside Sue Both ^Gsay they needed something ^Csus, ^Cnew

®:So I'm ^Cstanding at the gates of the West I burn ^Emmoney at the lights of the sign The^F city ^Gcasts a s^Chadow of the perfect crime

I'm standing at the gates of the East

I take my ^Empulse and the pulse of my friend The^F city c^Gasts a shadow, w^Cill I see you again?

The immigrants an' remnants of all the glory years Are clustered around the bar again for another round of beers Little Richard's in the kitchen playing spoons and plates He's telling the waitress he's great Ah say I know somewhere back'n'forth in time Out on the dustbowls, deep in the roulette mine Or in a ghetto cellar only yesterday There's a move into the future for the U.S.A. I hear them crying Eastside Jimmy and Southside Sue Both say they needed something new ®:

^CC ^EmEm ^EmEm ^AmAm ^AmAm ^FF ^FF ^CC ^EmEm ^EmEm ^AmAm ^AmAm ^FF ^FF C C, Emi, Emi, Ami, Ami, F, F, C (with chords from chorus) Standing at the gates of the West In the shadow again Standing at the gates of the West In the shadow again In the shadow again

The Clash - Gates Of The West