White City Lyrics And Chords By The Pogues
Written by Shane MacGowan, recorded by The Pogues. The tune of this is the same as The Curragh Of Kildare song, just at a faster pace with drums. Great arrangement from Shane with this one.
G
Here a tower shinning bright
C D
Once stood gleaming in the night
C G
Where now there's just the rubble
D
In the hole
C G
Here the paddies and the frogs
C D
Came to gamble on the dogs
G C D
Came to gamble on the dogs not long ago
Oh the torn up ticket stubs
>From a hundred thousand mugs
Now washed away with dead dreams in the rain
And the car-parks going up
And they're pulling down the pubs
And its just another bloody rainy day
Oh sweet city of my dreams
Of speed and skill and schemes
Like Atlantis you just disappeared from view
And the hare upon the wire
Has been burnt upon your pyre
Like the black dog that once raced
Out from trap two
G
Here a tower shining bright
C D
Once stood gleaming in the night
C G D
Where now there's just the rubble in the hole
C G
Here the paddies and the frogs
C D
Came to gamble on the dogs
G C D
Came to gamble on the dogs not long ago
Oh the torn up ticket stubs
From a hundred thousand mugs
Now washed away with dead dreams in the rain
And the car-parks going up
And they're pulling down the pubs
And it's just another bloody rainy day
Here a tower shinning bright
C D
Once stood gleaming in the night
C G
Where now there's just the rubble
D
In the hole
C G
Here the paddies and the frogs
C D
Came to gamble on the dogs
G C D
Came to gamble on the dogs not long ago
Oh the torn up ticket stubs
>From a hundred thousand mugs
Now washed away with dead dreams in the rain
And the car-parks going up
And they're pulling down the pubs
And its just another bloody rainy day
Oh sweet city of my dreams
Of speed and skill and schemes
Like Atlantis you just disappeared from view
And the hare upon the wire
Has been burnt upon your pyre
Like the black dog that once raced
Out from trap two
G
Here a tower shining bright
C D
Once stood gleaming in the night
C G D
Where now there's just the rubble in the hole
C G
Here the paddies and the frogs
C D
Came to gamble on the dogs
G C D
Came to gamble on the dogs not long ago
Oh the torn up ticket stubs
From a hundred thousand mugs
Now washed away with dead dreams in the rain
And the car-parks going up
And they're pulling down the pubs
And it's just another bloody rainy day
Guitar chords in D Major
[D]Here a tower shinning bright
Once stood [G]gleaming in the [A]night
Where [G]now there's just the rubble
In the [A]hole
Here the [G]paddies and the [D]frogs
Came to [G]gamble on the [A]dogs
Came to [D]gamble on the [G]dogs not long a[A]go
Key of A
[A]Here a tower shinning bright
Once stood [D]gleaming in the [E]night
Where [D]now there's just the rubble
In the [E]hole
Here the [D]paddies and the [A]frogs
Came to [D]gamble on the [E]dogs
Came to [A]gamble on the [D]dogs not long a[E]go
Key of C
[C]Here a tower shinning bright
Once stood [F]gleaming in the [G]night
Where [F]now there's just the rubble
In the [G]hole
Here the [F]paddies and the [C]frogs
Came to [F]gamble on the [G]dogs
Came to [C]gamble on the [F]dogs not long a[G]go
[D]Here a tower shinning bright
Once stood [G]gleaming in the [A]night
Where [G]now there's just the rubble
In the [A]hole
Here the [G]paddies and the [D]frogs
Came to [G]gamble on the [A]dogs
Came to [D]gamble on the [G]dogs not long a[A]go
Key of A
[A]Here a tower shinning bright
Once stood [D]gleaming in the [E]night
Where [D]now there's just the rubble
In the [E]hole
Here the [D]paddies and the [A]frogs
Came to [D]gamble on the [E]dogs
Came to [A]gamble on the [D]dogs not long a[E]go
Key of C
[C]Here a tower shinning bright
Once stood [F]gleaming in the [G]night
Where [F]now there's just the rubble
In the [G]hole
Here the [F]paddies and the [C]frogs
Came to [F]gamble on the [G]dogs
Came to [C]gamble on the [F]dogs not long a[G]go
George Stroumboulopoulos talks to Shane MacGowan Of The Pogues
yeah this is John Joe Ryan's bar which is bring and at them ends it's in silver straightening and soon opposite help mrs. thing get Undertaker's there and it's a flash up there as well this is the stripper Bob right here's what she's got the bar and the florist and if you don't hole all in the same area well yes so we're emitting walking and carrying districts people coming to this pub I mean wherever you go you're Shane MacGowan did you did you find that when you come to this place you can have a I can just give a shame you're not that guy from the folks your own just shine here yeah over on go and look I tried to pitch down you know that's friend support to have that in your life isn't it I'm sure it is yeah yeah yeah yeah then big rush Schubert ran away coming with the upcoming poster I'm yeah do you
like going on the road with the band again to what's what's that experience like for you now when you're 50 years old like I said right you're 50 once what's it like for them yeah yeah yeah what a dog hears many groupies or you did you used to get a lot what do you get now hundreds is that how it works I'll go fading somebody's cutting it up in the park cut them off for the past before they get to you I suppose the touring is a different experience for you now than for other for those reasons and others no it's that what I mean it's it's it it's like it's better than sitting at home looking at the world let's put it that way you know I mean you know and it's better than nothing downwards so we go back on the road where the safety of expectations of what
a tour can be like you treat it differently than you used to expectations can only well I'm on a positive thinker right yeah but if you have expectations then yet you're bound to get disappointment you know I mean my colleges I can be dead in two minutes in two seconds you know I mean you know just like an electric give me two seconds yet here's hoping we don't do that you can have the mythical swine flu yeah we have a ring bro taste in music but when it comes to the power sweet we just have to hammer it in for sure other songs that you don't want to play anymore their songs well you did their sons to do you the audience that the audience want so much that that every be it would be what's the word the chain TAS T not to do him right yeah you don't fairytale you guys so that's all I heard you
wouldn't do that anymore is that true no I'll do it when it's it's not as pretty up here in the U.S. of A. is is in other places it's really popular in Canada oh no yeah yeah yeah yeah I love you baby did you know when you wrote it at a Christmas time that's become a pre a pretty huge song for certain places did you know what it was going to be I had no idea whoa we own when years we were gonna throw up trying to a Christmas song - Fairytale Of New York right yeah that wasn't gonna be sentimental crap you know yeah yeah sure you look back at all the I mean you're still here and you're still in this bed does that surprise you no no nice no no no I mean it's it's it's it's fun you're army as always it's
fun like perfectly for me and the band the pretty audience then then then I'll do it you know I'll do it anyway you know but but like you you know I mean but I gotta do for some money yeah yeah well you gotta get paid but when you were out of the van did you ever think you were gonna get back into it Oh listen oh my goodness is here are you writing still writing songs now yeah yeah and then you know I mean like um you know like you what usually happens is up I start doing the cover yet and then I'll start changing the words a bit or forgetting yeah yeah and then don't forget the music a bit and then it turns into somebody else I made a Goran boy Shane place like nobody else picks up a guitar on such plain and by God by the time the covers finished it sounds nothing like the
completely if the completely does a picture to plot on the BBC that said you had a new set of teeth all of a sudden was that a real story we got yeah it was an old moment all over in Spain and birds do these painless Danish Danish yeah and we went over to Spain for a holiday again did you sweat them all out yeah and go with Stan shoes yeah don't think that's really the road long to stop warning for yeah with a project like that picture yeah um I don't care what crap they write yeah you know a lane like it's like something like says why you're pressed don't read it it's a really good point isn't it that's a really good like and that's a perfect place to end ha whoo.
yeah this is John Joe Ryan's bar which is bring and at them ends it's in silver straightening and soon opposite help mrs. thing get Undertaker's there and it's a flash up there as well this is the stripper Bob right here's what she's got the bar and the florist and if you don't hole all in the same area well yes so we're emitting walking and carrying districts people coming to this pub I mean wherever you go you're Shane MacGowan did you did you find that when you come to this place you can have a I can just give a shame you're not that guy from the folks your own just shine here yeah over on go and look I tried to pitch down you know that's friend support to have that in your life isn't it I'm sure it is yeah yeah yeah yeah then big rush Schubert ran away coming with the upcoming poster I'm yeah do you
like going on the road with the band again to what's what's that experience like for you now when you're 50 years old like I said right you're 50 once what's it like for them yeah yeah yeah what a dog hears many groupies or you did you used to get a lot what do you get now hundreds is that how it works I'll go fading somebody's cutting it up in the park cut them off for the past before they get to you I suppose the touring is a different experience for you now than for other for those reasons and others no it's that what I mean it's it's it it's like it's better than sitting at home looking at the world let's put it that way you know I mean you know and it's better than nothing downwards so we go back on the road where the safety of expectations of what
a tour can be like you treat it differently than you used to expectations can only well I'm on a positive thinker right yeah but if you have expectations then yet you're bound to get disappointment you know I mean my colleges I can be dead in two minutes in two seconds you know I mean you know just like an electric give me two seconds yet here's hoping we don't do that you can have the mythical swine flu yeah we have a ring bro taste in music but when it comes to the power sweet we just have to hammer it in for sure other songs that you don't want to play anymore their songs well you did their sons to do you the audience that the audience want so much that that every be it would be what's the word the chain TAS T not to do him right yeah you don't fairytale you guys so that's all I heard you
wouldn't do that anymore is that true no I'll do it when it's it's not as pretty up here in the U.S. of A. is is in other places it's really popular in Canada oh no yeah yeah yeah yeah I love you baby did you know when you wrote it at a Christmas time that's become a pre a pretty huge song for certain places did you know what it was going to be I had no idea whoa we own when years we were gonna throw up trying to a Christmas song - Fairytale Of New York right yeah that wasn't gonna be sentimental crap you know yeah yeah sure you look back at all the I mean you're still here and you're still in this bed does that surprise you no no nice no no no I mean it's it's it's it's fun you're army as always it's
fun like perfectly for me and the band the pretty audience then then then I'll do it you know I'll do it anyway you know but but like you you know I mean but I gotta do for some money yeah yeah well you gotta get paid but when you were out of the van did you ever think you were gonna get back into it Oh listen oh my goodness is here are you writing still writing songs now yeah yeah and then you know I mean like um you know like you what usually happens is up I start doing the cover yet and then I'll start changing the words a bit or forgetting yeah yeah and then don't forget the music a bit and then it turns into somebody else I made a Goran boy Shane place like nobody else picks up a guitar on such plain and by God by the time the covers finished it sounds nothing like the
completely if the completely does a picture to plot on the BBC that said you had a new set of teeth all of a sudden was that a real story we got yeah it was an old moment all over in Spain and birds do these painless Danish Danish yeah and we went over to Spain for a holiday again did you sweat them all out yeah and go with Stan shoes yeah don't think that's really the road long to stop warning for yeah with a project like that picture yeah um I don't care what crap they write yeah you know a lane like it's like something like says why you're pressed don't read it it's a really good point isn't it that's a really good like and that's a perfect place to end ha whoo.
