A       D       F#m   E D
As I walked out one morning fair,
        A                       E
I found myself drawn thoughtlessly
            A        D       F#m  E D
Back to the place we used to live,
              A               E
And you still do, now without me.


D                              F#m
Around the back, away from the road,
D                              F#m
Behind the bins, beneath your window,
  E                   A       F#m
I found the hulk, the rusting bulk
     D             A
Of a shattered old piano.


D                                F#m
Someone had torn out some of the keys
D                               F#m
With cruel care, not thoughtlessly,
E                            A    F#m
In such a way that one could only play
D     A
Minor melodies.


     D              F#m        Bm    A    E
So I sat down in my sadness, beneath your window,
             D                F#m             Bm A   E
And I played sad songs on the minor keys of a broken piano;
  D                                                         A
A sinner amongst saved men on the banks of the muddy Thames.


          A        D            F#m  E D
As I have wandered through this city,
       A                        E
Like a child lost in the London fog,
              A          D      F#m   E D
From Highgate Hill, down to the river,
                A               E
Then washed downstream past the Isle of Dogs,


D                             F#m
I've had time enough to think upon
D                            F#m
The question of what kind of songs
     E                   A      F#m
That you would choose to listen to
D        A
Now that I am gone.

D                           F#m
And as I drift beneath that bridge,
D                                 F#m
Just down the road from where you live,
     E               A          F#m
I've often thought I might have caught
D                   A
Your voice upon the wind.


         A             D      F#m  E D
But as I stroked those broken keys
            A       E
You did not join in harmony.


     D              F#m        Bm    A    E
So I sat down in my sadness, beneath your window,
             D                F#m             Bm A   E
And I played sad songs on the minor keys of a broken piano;
  D                                                          A
A sinner amongst saved men on the banks of the muddy Thames.

A E D
A E D
E|------o| n the banks of the muddy Thames.
A E D
E|------o| n the banks of the muddy Thames.
A E D
A E D
A E D