This is Matthew Ryan's song 'Lights of the Commodore Barry', the 6th track from his 1997
album "May Day". It's in standard tuning with capo on the 2nd fret.
Verse 1:
D
I saw the lights of the Commodore Barry
GA
And I felt the shock of an atom bomb
DA
When the tired old city of Chester
EmA
Was draped and dying in my arms
D
For a while I was lost under the weight of remembering
Of how the sun would warn the projects some mornings
GA
When the birds were falling like winter's frozen rain
DA
And I was all fingers numb holding a brown paper lunch
EmA
Twelve years old and already ashamed
Interlude: D, G, A, D, A, Em, A
Verse 2:
D
Now soon I was floating over Highland Avenue
By my side was the Red Cross, the Pope and the President too
GA
Yeah I had returned like I swore I would
DA
To right some wrongs and sing my song
EmA
And share the luck that every man should
D
But when the fever broke and I awoke from the dream
I was passed out beside a jukebox siphoning gasoline
GA
When my brother yanked me hard from the corner bar
DA
And carried my drunk bones all the way home
EmA
Draped and heavy in his arms
End on D.