Intro: B (x2) 
      (B  A  E  B)

B
Life is wicked in wino city
A
Life down here just ain't pretty
E
We get down to the "Nitty Gritty"
B
You can smell the stench of vagabond city
B
Life used to be sex   smack and tears
A
For a dirty hero playin' guitars for those years
E
To make a few quid for breakfast at Sids
B
And a pack o' ten tabs for me n' my missus

G
An all those people hit me
F#
They just knock me down  
B                  G             B
In cardboard town   come on down   cardboard town

F#                       Em
Where everyone gets down  down

From the Irish to the rich that have fallen from grace
To the battered wife took one too many on the face
The husband is drunk n' so absurd
To the people who give up on the world

An all those people hit me
They just knock me down

In cardboard town   come on down   cardboard town
Where everyone gets down  down

solo: B  A (x6)
     (Em)

Down in the gutter sleepin' with the dogs
Talkin' to the fleas   rats n' the hogs
Drinkin' the grain that'll rot my brain
Leavin' thunderbird city on the next nightrain

An all those people hit me
They just knock me down  

In cardboard town   come on down   cardboard town
Whre every one gets down  down

Come on down   irish n' slick guys hang around
25 cents if you got any sense