Gino Vannelli – The Woman Upstairs chords

          Em                    C6She had a chalk-white face and dandelion hair
        D                   D                        A     D/A  AT'was a wisp of a woman who lived in the tenement upstairs
                     D   C     D/C  CWhere the walls were so thin

You could hear her
|Em         A/E     |Em     A/E    |Em    A/E  |  bleedin'


       Em                               Cmaj7He was mountain of a man that stunk o' Brewdog ale
       D/G                    D6/9                  A    D/A  AWith a fist he swung like a curved-claw hammer on a nail
            G/B  C     D/C  CWith all of his might
Most every

|Em         A/E     |Em     A/E    |Em     A/E    |Em night


        C         D       Em7      G     AThen it came one day on a cold day in July
  Am7     C6        D      D6      G     B7sus4  B7A 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#7Yeah the moment had arrived
      B7As he wrapped his hands around her throat
Before the kitchen lights went dark
She took hold of the butcher knife
        G/F    F      Em  G7And she drove it   in to  his
|Em     |A/E     |Em   Em/D   |A/C#heart
    B7She 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                    C6Soon the police came and they laid her in cuffs
 Gsus2                     Dsus2                      A    D/A  AThrew her in the back of a black and white and sure enough
                  C    D/C   CThey locked her away
CAnd there she would
|Em   A/E   |Em  A/E   |Em   A/E   |Emstay


                    Cmaj13
Until such time her case was assigned
     Gsus2                  Dsus2                    A      D/A   A7To a public defender who had ten other trials on his mind
                     C   D/C  CThus the verdict was in
Before a word was

|Em   A/E   |Em  A/E   |Em   A/E   |Emspoken


        C       D         Em7      G     AThen it came one day on a cold day in July
  Am7     C6        D      D6      G     B7sus4  B7A 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#7Yeah the moment had arrived

B7As 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   B7And that mountain of a man was

|Em     |A/E     |Em   Em/D   |A/C# dead
         B7Ya  that mountain of a man was

|Em            |A/E       |G/C    D/G    |D   Cmaj7   |dead
|Bb6  Abmaj7   |G    F    |Em            |Em          |Em9     |Em9       |




               Em                  D6/9She weren't no newsworthy face, no lady fair
       Gsus2               Dsus2                     A      D/A   AJust a hard-luck woman who lived in the tenement upstairs
                     C     D/C   CWho by a jury of her peers
                 Em7Got twenty-five years