The Woman Upstairs

Em C6 she had a chalk - white face and dandelion hair D D A D/A A t’was a wisp of a woman who lived in the tenement upstairs D C D/C C where the walls were so thin you could hear her | Em A/E | Em A/E | Em A/E | bleedin’ Em Cmaj7 he was mountain of a man that stunk o’ brewdog ale D/G D6/9 A D/A A with a fist he swung like a curved - claw hammer on a nail G/B C D/C C with all of his might most every | Em A/E | Em A/E | Em A/E | Em night C D Em7 G A then it came one day on a cold day in july Am7 C6 D D6 G B7sus4 B7 a time to choose to either live or die C D/C D B7/D# Em D6 A/C# like a low - hung fruit sprung from the tree of life C G/B Am F#7 yeah the moment had arrived B7 as he wrapped his hands around her throat before the kitchen lights went dark she took hold of the butcher knife G/F F Em G7 and she drove it in to his | Em | A/E | Em Em/D | A/C# heart B7 she drove it in to his | Em | A/E | Em Em/D | A/C# B7+9 | heart | Em A/E | Em A/E | Em A/E | Em Em C6 soon the police came and they laid her in cuffs Gsus2 Dsus2 A D/A A threw her in the back of a black and white and sure enough C D/C C they locked her away C and there she would | Em A/E | Em A/E | Em A/E | Em stay Cmaj13 until such time her case was assigned Gsus2 Dsus2 A D/A A7 to a public defender who had ten other trials on his mind C D/C C thus the verdict was in before a word was | Em A/E | Em A/E | Em A/E | Em spoken C D Em7 G A then it came one day on a cold day in july Am7 C6 D D6 G B7sus4 B7 a time to choose to either live or die C D/C D B7/D# Em D A/C# like a low - hung fruit sprung from the tree of life C G/B Am F#7 yeah the moment had arrived B7 as i heard her shout , "no way , no how! no more blood and tears will i shed!" and then there came that terrible silence G/F F Em B7 and that mountain of a man was | Em | A/E | Em Em/D | A/C# dead B7 ya that mountain of a man was | Em | A/E | G/C D/G | D Cmaj7 | dead | A#6 G#maj7 | G F | Em | Em | Em9 | Em9 | Em D6/9 she weren’t no newsworthy face , no lady fair Gsus2 Dsus2 A D/A A just a hard - luck woman who lived in the tenement upstairs C D/C C who by a jury of her peers Em7 got twenty - five years