Down In The Tube Station At Midnight Chords

by JAM
KeyAm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays487

Down In The Tube Station At Midnight by JAM is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Am. It uses the chords Am, D, Gmaj7, G, Bm and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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Intro: Am D X2 

verse 1: 
Am            D   Am          D               Gmaj7   
  The distant echo of faraway voices boarding faraway trains  
Am             D      Am                  D                      Gmaj7   
  To take them home to the ones that they love and who love them forever 
Am                D     Am        D                  Gmaj7    
The glazed, dirty steps repeat my own and reflect my thoughts 
Am         D         Am        D           
Cold and uninviting, partially naked 
           G                       Bm                C                 D          
Except for toffee wrapers and this morning's papers, Mr. Jones got run down 
G                              Bm                     C                D 
Headlines of death and sorrow, they tell of tomorrow, madmen on the rampage 
        G                           Bm                 C  D 
And I'm down in the tube station at midnight, oh oh oh oh oh 

Break: Am D X2 

verse 2: 
Am             D     Am                D     Gmaj7    
  I fumble for change and pull out the Queen smiling, beguiling 
Am             D    Am              D    Gmaj7   
  I put in the money and pull out a plum behind me 
Am                D      Am              D       Gmaj7   
  Whispers in the shadows, gruff blazing voices, hate in waiting 
Am             D    Am                 D 
  Hey boy they shout, have you got any money 
           G                         Bm                      C                 D 
And I said I've a little money and a take away curry, I'm on my way home to my wife 
          G                          Bm                       C                         D 
She'll be lining up the cutlery, you know she's expecting me, polishing the glasses and pulling out the cork 
        G                           Bm                 C  D 
And I'm down in the tube station at midnight, oh oh oh oh oh 

Break: Am D X2 

verse 3: 
Am               D   Am           D                 Gmaj7    
  I first felt a fist, and then a kick, I could now smell their breath 
Am              D   Am            D                   Gmaj7   
  They smelt of pubs and Wormwood Scrubs and too many right wing meetings 
Am            D         Am                 D                     Gmaj7   
My life swam around me, it took a look and drowned me in its own existence 
Am                 D        Am                     D 
The smell of brown leather, it blended in with the weather 
             G                              Bm                              C                    D 
It filled my eyes, ears, nose and mouth, it blocked all my senses, couldn't see, hear, speak any longer 
        G                           Bm                 C  D 
And I'm down in the tube station at midnight, oh oh oh oh oh 
             G                           Bm                 C  D 
I said I was down in the tube station at midnight, oh oh oh oh oh 

Drum Break and train noise 

G                            Bm                           C                         D  
The last thing that I saw as I lay there on the floor was Jesus saves painted by an atheist nutter 
      G                        Bm               C                   D 
And a British Rail poster read have an awayday, a cheap holiday, oh do it today  
  G                           Bm                            C                      D 
I glanced back on my life and thought about my wife  'cause they took the keys and she'll think it's me 
        G                              Bm         C                         D 
And I'm down in the tube station at midnight, the wine will be flat and the curry's gone cold 
    G                           Bm                 C  D 
I'm down in the tube station at midnight, oh oh oh oh oh 
                 G                         Bm                 C  D 
Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight, oh oh oh oh oh 
                 G                         Bm                 C  D 
Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight, oh oh oh oh oh 
                 G                         Bm                 C  D 
Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight, oh oh oh oh oh 
                 G                         Bm                 C  D 
Don't want to go down in a tube station at midnight, oh oh oh oh oh 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante