Imelda May
Kentish Town Waltz Chords
My first tab. For the irrepressibly brilliant Imelda May. Hope you like it.
Intro:
G Major
Verse 1
G D
Do you remember we traipsed around from pub to pound shop up through Kentish Town
D
Only a fiver to our name, the drunk on the doorstep had more to our shame
G D
Living over the offy had its trials the fights all night out there and inside
D
And those stews that lasted three days into four and the dreaded baliffs'
D
returned to our door,
Bridge 1:
C Am C Am
but we stuck with each other with all our might, we pulled it together and held on tight,
D
And I'm glad for us yeah I'm glad mo chroi but it's nothing to anyone 'cept you and me
Chorus:
C G C G
There were wrongs for every right, there's ups and there's downs
C G D
But you're the one for all my life, my true love I have found, yeah you my
G
love I found
Verse 2:
G
I watched the moon cover the might of the sun, The weird evening light at a
D
quarter past one, and I knew in my head as you lay in our bed that you’d stay
D
in my heart til the day I was dead,
G D
We killed each other and loved in time, and laughed til we almost cried,
D
yeah we cried as well when it all went to hell, And my heart it broke til I
D
swear it died
Bridge 2:
C Am C Am
but we stuck with each other with all our might, we pulled it together and held on tight,
D
And I'm glad for us yeah I'm glad mo chroi but it's nothing to anyone 'cept you and me
Chorus repeated:
C G C G
There were wrongs for every right, there's ups and there's downs
C G D
But you're the one for all my life, my true love I have found, yeah you my
G
love I found
Guitar Solo: G D D
Verse 3:
G D
Oh you're good at the things I'm hopeless at and I notice what you ignore
D
But its when I see you're not prefect for me, its then I love you more and more,
Bridge 3:
C Am C Am
and we stuck with each other with all our might, we pulled it together and held real tight,
D
And I'm glad for us, I'm glad mo chroi but it's nothing to anyone except you and me
Chorus repeated:
C G C G
There were wrongs for every right, there's ups and there's downs
C G D
But you're the one for all my life, my true love I have found, yeah you my
G
love I found
Ooo oooo
Chorus repeated:
C G C G
There were wrongs for every right, there's ups and there's downs
C G D
But you’re the one for all my life, my true love I have found, yeah you my
G
love I found
Outro: G
The country may be going to shite but at least we can be proud of our brilliant
artists, from Hannon and Davey to May and Hannigan.
