Gun Club: "Up And Above The World" (from the "Lucky Jim" album)


intro:  1x Em             then 3x Em   (guitar only)
        -7-7-------------------7-7-7------------------
        -8-8-------------------8-8-8------------------
        -9-9-------------------9-9-9------------------
        -9-9--9p7---9p7--------9-9-9--9p7---9p7-------
        -7-7------7-----7------7-7-7------7-----7-----
        ----------------------------------------------

then:   1x Em             then 7x Em
        -7-7-7------------------7-7----------------
        -8-8-8------------------8-8----------------
        -9-9-9------------------9-9----------------
        -9-9-9------------------9-9----------------
        -7-7-7--5h7p5---5-7-----7-7--5h7p5---5-7---
        --------------7--------------------7-------

repeat the latter riffs at the end of the verses whenever it's noted as "Em riff"


     C        D        B
I'm here up above the world
         E           D      B
looking down on the river black
 C        D       B
ready to take a swan dive
               E     D      B
'cause you're never coming back
     C        D        Em riff (4x)
I'm here up above the world

I always have to start all over
when I decide I should live
I won't be cheated anymore
'cause there's nothing left to give
I'm here up above the world


We almost started something
that you saw fit to take away
something so close to my heart
so near me every day
so I'm here up above the world


      D          Em riff (4x)   D
        I'm here


Forever you were my sister
but you took my heart in chains
the worst was when you broke them
I cannot live with the pain
so I'm here up above the world


        I'm here


           F#              B         A                 F#
                It's lonely here in the freezing dawn
                      B          A                    F#
                the ships come in through the London fog
                     B          A                 F#
                the builders are tearing up my street
                    B              A                      Em riff (4x)
                the ambulance roars it makes the sound I weep


instrumental =  24 times Em (rhythm like the riff), then 8x Em riff


I'm here up above the world
looking down at the river red
trying to bet to prayer
at the foot of my lonely bed
I'm here up above the world


Since I'll no longer be living
you'll have to answer my mail
explain it all to the papers
beside I bought my ticket for hell
there down below the world


        I'm here


end:	C  D  B

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