Evil Darling Chords

KeyEm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays425

Evil Darling by Joe Strummer is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords Em, Am, G, C, F and Dm. 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 
Em                   Am                        G          C  F C 
Well in this town that's the way-ay-ay-aaaaay it goes 

verse 1 
C                       Dm     F                C 
Say seven words for the sailors over out on the sea 
C                                 Dm     F 
But there ain't no saint just for killers 
F                           C 
No mama's going to pray for me 
C                            Dm          G 
Well I was blown here by the wind 
G                    C 
To a rusty city left unnamed 
C                        Dm       G 
The dusty singing cowboy died here 
G                    C 
He's still doing tombstone things 
F                              C 
And he knew how hard it was to cry 
F                                 C 
This evil darling, this deep blue sky 
F                               C   G 
To be the rain in a dying man's eye 
G                                  F 
Cry for water and you get no reply 
F                                    C  G 
Beg for mercy and laughter fills the sky 
 
Em       Am 
Dog Town morning she cries 
Em                    Am 
Barrels' views up are right on in your eye 
Em                  Am 
Dog Town There's no fruit from acid rain 
Em                      Am 
Go see if the coffin kid has a lid that bears your name 
Em            Dm                 G           C    F C 
In this town, that's the way-ay-ay-aaaaay it goes 

verse 2 
C                               Dm 
You've heard of lamp-lit haciendas 
F                                  C 
With wide-eyed girls who haunt the night 
C                        Dm 
But the senoritas you've befriended 
F                                             C 
Cut the stars all out of the mirrors of their eyes 
C                      Dm     G 
She sent seven shotgun shells 
G                       C 
Into the netherworld of Hell 
C                               Dm 
She slaughtered nine five white chickens 
G                      C        F 
So you can never break her spell 
F                                       C   F 
Follow her down boy and you're bound to die 
F                                         C 
Down in canyons Beyond the blind people's eye 
F                                           C     G 
She'll leave your bones Down in the haunted ground 
G                                     F 
The hutchie wooden guarding your soul 
F                             C            G 
Dead like a rock nevermore to roam 

Em       Am 
Dog Town morning, she cries 
Em                             Am 
Barrels from the shotgun blaze right between your eyes 
Em                  Am 
Dog Town there's no fruit from acid rain 
Em                             Am 
Go see if the coffin kid has a lid that bears your name 
Em       Am 
Dog Town morning she cries 
Em                             Am 
Barrels from the shotgun blaze right between your eyes 
Em                    Am 
Bad dreams boys of my last night's Dog Town fight 
Em                             Am 
Go see if the coffin kid has a box to fit your size 
Em            Dm                 G           C    F C 
In this town, that's the way-ay-ay-aaaaay it goes 

Outro 
F C F C F C 
    	

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