Tumbling Down chords by Steve Harley And Cockney Rebel

Tumbling Down
Steve Harley

Verse 1:
A       C#m      F#m     E      D    A    E
Gee, but it's hard when one lowers one's guard to the vultures
  A  C#m     F#m   E       D         A    E
Now me I regard it a tortuous hardship that smoulders
    F#m    D       E
Like a peppermint eaten away
    F#m      D     E
Will I fight, will I swagger or sway?
A      C#m    F#m     E    D         A    E
Hee hee, mi-lady, she cries like a baby to scold us
         A  C#  F#m  E      D    A    E
See her tumbling down         Tumbling down

Verse 2:
A      C#m      F#m     E    D    A    E
Hail to the monkey, we're having us a funky reunion
A     C#m     F#m    E     D    A    E
Wasted and sunk, he can only have Sunday communion
     F#m   D       E
He's got nicotine stains in his eyes
     F#m    D        E
(He's got) nothing to protect but his pride
A      C#m    F#m     E      D    A    E
Smother the kiss or be drownded in blissful confusion
        A  C#m  F#m   E      D    A    E
See it tumbling down         Tumbling down

Verse 3:
A    C#m      F#m   E     D       A    E
Juvenile tale, see the Titanic sail into Brighton
  A     C#m      F#m    E    D    A    E
The Hemingway staccato, the tragic bravado can frighten.
   F#m D           D
To be here there and everywhere’s fine
      F#m      D       E
But do you have to be so swift all the time?
 A     C#m     F#m     E    D    A    E
Deliver the dawn to the Moulin Rouge on the horizon
         A  C#m  F#m  E        D    A    E
Watch it tumbling down           Tumbling down (Repeat)

Verse 4:
A C#m  F#m        E      D   A   E
Oh dear, look what they’ve done to the blues, blues, blues
A C#m  F#m        E      D   A   E
Oh dear, look what they’ve done to the blues, blues, blues
A C#m  F#m        E      D   A   E