Payday - Cathal Coughlan Music

Payday

Cathal Coughlan's Black River Falls album

Released in 2000 by Cooking Vinyl

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INTRO (x2)

Dm

C/D

VERSE 1

Dm

How many

C/D

days have

Dm

broken on you

C/D

now

Dm

Since you ceased to

C/D

suffer and to

Dm

breathe?

C/D

The

Dm

season has

C/D

changed, or

Dm

so they’ll try to

C/D

say

The

Dm

hillside where you

C/D

lie is wreathed in

Dm

green

C/D

But the

Fm

air keeps its

Fm7

chill

And

Bb7

summer hides it face

The

Fm

air resounds with

Fm7

shots from absent

Gm

guns

Re

Fm

gret unpacks its

Fm7

bags

And

Bb7

settles down to stay

Now

Cm

all is

Ab5/C

said and

Bb

done

CHORUS 1

And it’s

C

payday up on Blarney Street and the

Cm7

mystery

re

Eb9/F

turns

To the

C

bookie shops and pharmacies – the

Cm7

mystery

re

Eb9/F

turns

No

C

whiskey, no amphetamines – the

Cm7

mystery

re

Eb9/F

turns

And you’re

Gm

gone like a

Eb

cloud

Gm

Left me here to my count

Eb

down

VERSE 1

Dm

C/D

Dm

C/D

That

Dm

bird will never

C/D

sing full

Dm

yards from wing to

C/D

wing

He’s

Dm

gliding through the

C/D

city’s sunless

Dm

pause

C/D

Down

Dm

close to the

C/D

road, no

Dm

fear of steel or

C/D

chrome

The

Dm

street lamps beckon him

C/D

on until he

Dm

finds his perch in the

C/D

dawn

And

Fm

he’s there when I

Fm7

rise

On the

Bb7

ledge across from mine

Seems

Fm

no one sees the

Fm7

blackness there but

Gm

me

“Come

Fm

on, jump a

Fm7

cross

You’ll

Bb7

never feel the drop”

Now

Cm

all is

Ab5/C

said and

Bb

done

CHORUS 2

And it’s

C

payday over Stepney Green – and the

Cm7

mystery

re

Eb9/F

turns

To those

C

fragile heartbreak tenancies – and the

Cm7

mystery

re

Eb9/F

turns

And the

C

limp consumer certainties – and the

Cm7

mystery

re

Eb9/F

turns

And you’re

Gm

gone like a

Eb

cloud

Too

Gm

late for luck to

Eb

change

Gm

now