Lights Of The Commodore Barry Chords & Lyrics - Matthew Ryan

[VERSE 1]
[D]I saw the lights of the Commodore Barry

From the deck of the ghost of the flower street ferry
[G]And I felt the shock of an[A] atom bomb
When the[D] tired old city of [A]Chester
Wa[Em]s draped and dying in my[A] arms
[D]For a while I was lost under the weight of remembering

Of how the sun would warn the projects some mornings
[G]When the birds were falling like winter's[A] frozen rain
And I was [D]all fingers numb holding a [A]brown paper lunch
[Em]Twelve years old and already[A] 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
[G]Yeah I had returned like I [A]swore I would
To [D]right some wrongs and [A]sing my song
And[Em] share the luck that every man[A] should
[D]But when the fever broke and I awoke from the dream

I was passed out beside a jukebox siphoning gasoline
[G]When my brother yanked me hard from the[A] corner bar
And carried my[D] drunk bones [A]all the way home
[Em]Draped and heavy in his [A]arms

End on D.