Hope Street
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Written by The Levellers. The album version appearing on the "Zeitgeist" album, and
the acoustic version on the "Hope Street" single.
Trans. by Alan Bigham (ajb@oneway.co.uk), 1/10/99
This is from the acoustic version "Busking On Hope Street", which doesn't sound
too different to the other version IMO. The demo on the Out-takes CD has a few
lyrical changes, but the chords are the same.
Intro
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A D x4
Verse
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A
There's a young boy in the queue
D
Not much else for him to do
A
He's had a drink, he's had a few
D
Down the pub on Hope Street
A
Dear old lady you're looking thin
D
Got a shopping bag with your life in
A
Your old man's going through the bins
D
So it goes on Hope Street
Chorus
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A
Rain on me come pouring down
D
Clean the dirt of this old town
A
Tell the sun to come around
D
And show his face on Hope Street
There's a fight right down the street
The betting shop has got him beat
Blew his money for the week
On a horse called Hope Street
No old faces out today
Someone took them all away
Cleaning up or so they say
The dirty face of Hope Street
Everyday I look at you
Dressed up in your ties of blue
Saying there's not much you can do
To help the kids on Hope Street
They don't seem to even care
That it was you that put them there
You seem to think they like it there
Hanging out on Hope Street
