Jesse Malin

Riding On The Subway Chords

Jesse Malin
Riding on the subway
The fine art of self destruction

My first tab so please go easy, any suggestions greatfully recieved.

Standard tuning: E A D G B E
Capo on 2nd fret or on 3rd if tuned down half a step like Jesse often does.

Bass intro
Em     G Em

    Em   G Em                  Em  G Em
The Harlem mammas they are laughing
They call me punk rock think they're cute
The pizza boys they keep on starin'
I guess they finally made it off their stoop

Em                    G
I don't even know and I don't even care x3
   C
Oh yeah

      G         C
Since I've been hanging round
      G         C
Machines go up and down
      G         C          D  
Spray paint gospel on the beat
    G       C
Another billboard reads
    G       C
Come to Miami Beach
    G       C                D
A man sells pretzels in the heat
Riding on the subway

Em   G Em

Saints and sinners sweepstakes winners
Nine to five their smoking gun
Jazzman Jimmy's busked a million
Sometimes plays Duke Ellington for fun

I don't even know and I don't even care x3
Oh yeah

I've been hanging round
In the underground
One day I saw you in your seat
Past the transit cops
A three-card monty box
If I only had the guts to speak
Riding on the subway

C
Mother told me yesterday
     G                               D
The things that God would never say before
       C                         G                          D
We'll hang around the radio and listen to the status quo go on
I'm all right until Sunday night when

I keep going down
Took the local round
A soul confession in my sleep
Ain't no wishing well
Underneath the El
I still hope someday we might meet
Riding on the subway