Down here below

G C (X 4)

G C G
Pale male the famous redtail hawk performs wingstands high above midtown
C G
Manhattan circles around for one last pass over the park
C G
Got his eye on a fat squirrel down there and a couple of pigeons
C
They got no place to run they got no place to hide

G C
But pale male he’s cool, see ‘cause his breakfast ain’t goin’ nowhere
G C
So he does a loop t loop for the tourists and the six o’clock news
G C
Got him a penthouse view from the tip-top of the food chain, boys
G C G
He looks up and down on fifth avenue and says “God I love this town”

C G
But life goes on
C G
Down here below
C Em G
And all us mortals struggle so
C G
We laugh and cry
C G
And live and die
C
That’s how it goes
Em
For all we know
G
Down here below

G C G C

G C
I saw Joe Mitchell’s ghost on a downtown ‘A’ train
G C
He just rides on forever now that the Fulton fish market’s shut down
G C
He said they ain’t never gonna get that smell out of the water
G C
I don’t give a damn how much of that new money they burn

G C
Now hell’s kitchen’s Clinton and the bowery’s Nolita
G C
And the east village’s creepin’ ‘cross the Williamsburg bridge
G C
And hey, whatever happened to alphabet city?
G C G
Ain’t no place left in this town that a poor boy can go


C G
But life goes on
C G
Down here below
C Em G
And all us mortals struggle so
C G
We laugh and cry
C G
And live and die
C
That’s how it goes
Em
For all we know
G
Down here below

D
Pale male swimmin’ in the air
D
Looks like he’s in heaven up there
D
People sufferin’ everywhere
D
But he don’t care

C G
But life goes on
C G
Down here below
C Em G
And all us mortals struggle so

We laugh and cry