Stick To Me

pre>
Slow intro
A d a e
Where were you when the raid came? where were you when the raid came?
A d a e d a
Out of the window or on the floor. yeah, on the night of the raid

A d
I was just rolling up some real good black
A e
Knock on the door and the window cracked
A d
The ds just come to bust the fun
A e
Everybody scatter and run

I was jossing with the baby in the bathroom
Hanging out the party with the coke spoon
Somebody yelled hey my head's on fire
Just can't take it no higher

Hey, dealers from the north and dealers from the south
Joints in the noses and joints in the mouth
But the friction in the kitchen only wanted out
On the night of the raid

Somebody yelled help put that thing on me
That's one man i wouldn't want to be
If you said now i'm going to make it sing
On the night of the raid

Well the boys hit the wall like bowling balls
Questioned them all like they had no balls
Snow hit their noses like an avalanche
On the night on the raid

Chorus (as inro except..)
Where were you when the raid came?
Where were you when the raid came?
Out of the window or on the floor
A
Yeah, on the night of the raid

Chorus repeat and fade /pre>

pre>(spoken) all right, let's do the new york shuffle (over d)

A d a d a d

D a
Manhattan baby with a sing song voice
G d
She got her place in the human zoo
D a
I went to living on the boulevard
G a
Now that the revolution's due
G a
She said i've been around from town to town
G a
And i learned to love and hate
G a
But time don't change not a unique game,
G a d
They just keep herding through that gate

Chorus
D a
And do the new york shuffle, baby new york scuffle,
G d
Going to stay awake all night
D a
Do the new york shuffle, baby new york scuffle,
G a d d a d
Get yourself uptight, get uptight

Stick around kids you're going to see some action
Better shoot them in the street
Grab a gun before the police come,
Don't tell me you're too sweet
Down in the alley they are hitting harder
Not as blown as a ball can be
They're burnin flags here and just in drag here
It sure is a sight to see

Repeat chorus

Bridge
Bm e bm e
Mister mayor give the key, let me lock you up
Bm e g a
Throw that key down the deepest subway in new york, new york

Instrumental verse (2 lines end on d)

Ah primal scream i had electric dream
I had to bang my head against the ground
I have to get out quick before i get as sick
As the people living in this town
Bounce me off the pavement bounce me off the wall
Bounce me off a taxi car
Give me a shot of that old jack daniels
And put me down in bars

Repeat chorus twice then
Down in new york city, get upight
Down in new york cbaby, get uptight
Tight tight tight tight tight get uptight
Tight tight tight tight tight get uptight /pre>

pre>intro- em c em c em c g g am c
Em c f c
Every last drop will go into this now, don't want to miss now
Em c f c
I don't know when to stop i just pump and pump till that's all there is

Chorus
Em g g am d /em
You better stick to me just like glue now
Em g g am d
You better stick to me that's what to do now

Race against time is what i'm into, pay now and get through
On the hard line are people's voices, screaming the choices

Repeat chorus

Bridge 1
(horns over em c am em d c g d em em em )
Em g am c em
If you stick to me when the vampires bite and their teeth come down
Em g am c em
If you stick to me on the sinking sea, we won't drown

Bridge 2
C em c em c em c g am c
We won't drown, we won't drown, we won't drown oh

(guitar over em c em c)

Yeah i've seen it happen people cracking under the weather
Buried beneath the rooftops the weight of the sky coming down on them

Repeat chorus

Repeat bridge 1

Em g g am d
Yeah stick to me just like glue now
Em g g am d
You better stick to me that's what to do now
Em d c em
You better stick to me (repeat to end) /pre>

pre>
C#m
I ain't stopping fingers keep bopping
F#m b e
Swing band rocking from the street to the bar
C#m
West coast's dated music's overrated
F#m a b
Here it on the radio in every car

Chorus
E a b d e d b a
The heat in harlem the heat in harlem, yep
E a b d b
The heat in harlem the heat in harlem
A b
And the heat of the soul


Ring that number hear that timbre
Watch my senses go right out the door
Born on the pavement that's where it happens
Rocking the apartment on the fifteenth floor

Chorus

Bridge
F#m a e
And when the heat burns your feet, got to jump to save your skin
F#m a
And when you jump the water pump
B f#m
The water just rushes away in the burning heat
A e f#m a b
Ooh yep, save your skin, uuh

We've been screaming, screaming through a jukebox
Screaming at someone that don't even care
Born on the pavement that's where it happens
Feel like fire in the midnight air

Chorus twice

Slow bridge em a em a em (alternaties like this with sometimes a em taking over)
A em a em dm em dm em
Look at the heat wave got everybody, got everybody under its spell
Sit back and wonder stand or go under, or feel the thunder starting to swell
The heat in harlem, the heat in harlem the heat in harlem punches then rolls
No big decision no aircondition the heat in harlem is the heat of the soul
Mamma is crying daddy is trying brother is working for everything you own
Sister is dreaming, dreaming of broadway around the corner a million miles from home

The heat in harlem the heat in harlem the heat in harlem punches then rolls
No big decision no aircondition the heat in harlem is the heat of the soul

The heat of the soul the heat of the soul the heat of the soul the heat of the soul
Down in the heatwave, yeah down down in the heatwave down in the heatwave, yeah
Down in the heat, heat, yeah watch the moon come down in the heat down in harlem town
Watch it all come down in the heat down in harlem town
The heat of the soul the heat of the soul
Watch it all come down in the heat down in harlem town
Watch the moon come down in the heat down in harlem town
Down in the heatwave, yeah down in the heatwave, yeah
Take it down in the heat heat yeah the heat of the soul
The heat of the soul

Down in the heat heat yeah down in the heat heat yeah
The heat of the soul the heat of the soul
Down in the heat heat yeah down in the heat heat uh uh
Down in the heat heat yeah down in the heat heat yeah
Down in the heat heat uh uh down in the heat heat yeah fades
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pre>watch the moon come down [top] [back to index]

G c
In this dirty town there's nothing going for me
G c
No shows going down that i would want to see
G em c
Nothing but the midnight tra----in
G c
In this shady street on a top floor flat
G c
Women take their sheets down to the laundromat
G em c
And as the night falls on this to-----wn

Chorus
G d em d c
I'm going to watch the moon come down
G d em d c
Watch the moon come down
G d em d c
I'm gonna watch the moon come down
G d em d
Watch it come down

G c
As the workmen walk home, reflected in the car chrome
G c
Splashing through the gutters and the sand
G c
The birds move in the rafters hearing echoes of the laughter
G c
From children in a playground close at hand

D bm
And hands inside my pockets, staring at the light sockets
C d
Everyone's been blown out everyone's been thrown out
C
I said baby baby baby baby baby

Repeat chorus

G c
If i stay out all night test the midnight train's headlights
G c
Follow the tracks beyond sight to the bend
G c
Now who've i got to let down, tell me somebody with their head down
G c d bm
Bargin' into solid ground in the end in the end, yeah in the end
C d
Waitin for the end, arrive to the end, hey hey (guitar solo)

C
I said baby baby baby baby baby
G d em d c
Watch the moon come down (three times)
G d em d c
Yes i'm going to watch the moon come down
G d em d c
Yeah i'm going to watch the moon come down like a midnight train uh huh
G c
Uh uh i'm going to watch the moon come down watch it come down
G c
Yes i'm going to watch the moon come down, like a midnight train (fade)
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