Allister
The Legend Of Pegleg Sullivan
Before The Blackout
2005
Key: A
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
A - 466544
Fb - x68886
F#m - 133111
D - x46664
Intor: A Fb A D A Fb D Fb A
Verse 1:
A Fb
1871 was the year
A D Fb
underneath an October sky
A
When a windy city man had
D
set out with a plan to set
A Fb A
a fire but nobody knows why
A
So Pegleg headed out
Fb
back with a match and a
A D Fb
bucket of kerosene
A
Little did he know that the
D
wind would blow through
A Fb A
the streets with anarchy
Refrain:
D A
Pegleg didn't have an alibi
D A
He didn't have a story to tell
D
But he bought his one way
A Fb
ticket straight to hell
Chorus 1:
A
Cuz he burned the
whole damn city
Fb
yeah Watched it all go down
F#m
Yeah he burned all of
D Fb
Chicago to the ground
A
yeah he burned that
beautiful city
Fb
He torched that
beautiful town
F#m
Yeah he burned all of
D Fb A D A
Chicago to the ground
Verse 2:
A
The Flames spread
Fb
fast every night
While they passed through
A
the alleys and the
D Fb
dead end streets
A
From suburban doors to
D
the lakefront shore
A Fb A
demolishing everything
A
And pegleg never got
Fb
blamed for the mess made
A D Fb
Said he never broke the law
A
But all that remained was
D
the charred black stains
A Fb A
Proving every things his fault
(Repeat Refrain)
(Repeat Chorus 1)
Bridge:
Fb
Of all the books
D A D A
printed on his terrain
Fb
None raised the flag
D A D A
on one mans legacy
F#m
Now everybody
D
knows the truth
F#m
of the stories
D
being exposed
F#m
So Pegleg's going
D Fb
down in infamy
Chorus 2:
A
Cuz he burned the
whole damn city
Fb
yeah Watched it all go down
F#m
Yeah he burned all of
D Fb
Chicago to the ground
A
yeah he burned that
beautiful city
Fb
He torched that
beautiful town
F#m
Yeah he burned all of
D Fb A D A
Chicago to the ground
D
Yeah he burned all of
Fb A D A
Chicago to the ground
D
Yeah he burned all of
Fb A D G#(hold)
Chicago to the ground