Basement Songs: Hey Rome

The purpose of Basement Songs is to allow our fans to play and sing along with Arthur's Concert for Iceland songs. We encourage you to send any recordings of your own renditions to carltonfarthington@gmail.com or share them with us (and the world!) through social media. Who knows, maybe one you could be up on stage with Arthur White!


VERSE 1:
       F/G             E/F#  F/G   F#/G#    F/G              F#Maj7/G#
Hey Rome, you wouldn't    let         my parents stay in luxury hotels
Hey Rome, so I   came in poverty, but you and me, we know well
That wise men still can find me and angry mobs can bind me
But no one can confine me entirely (2x)

Hey Rome, you wouldn't let my parents stay in luxury hotels
Hey Rome, so I came in poverty but you and me, we know well
'Cause here's the Colosseum and here's the Circus Maximus
We die in the arena so tell me why they taxing us?
                                                            G#
Hey Rome, one day I'll make you my home sweet home

CHORUS
F#Maj7                    AMaj7                        Am7
Hey Rome, I would have a moment with you
GMaj7
(How do you react when I tell you that)
Blessed are the poor, and you slammed the door upon me
(How do you react when I tell you that)
Blessed are the mourners; you heaped this scorn upon me
(How do you react when I tell you that)
Blessed are the meek, and you made a monster of me
And all that's left to do, friend I know that you
Gm7                      F/G (verse chords)
Need to keep the peace

VERSE 2:
Stranger in a strange land, I grew up in exile
Like my forefathers before me
We're raising up a new roof in the promised desert
Wasteland that you set aside for me

Hey Rome, wouldn't let my parents stay in luxury hotels
Hey Rome, so I came in poverty but you and me we know well
That I hung out with the fallen and wrong kind of company
But hearts this made of love are a danger to society

Hey Rome, one day I'll make you my home sweet home

Hey Rome, I would have a moment with you
(How do you react when I tell you that)
When I was hungry, you gave me your government cheese
(How do you react when I tell you that)
When I was a stranger, you turned me out in the street
(How do you react when I tell you that)
When I was in prison, you sent me some company
(How do you react when I tell you that)
And all that's left to do, friend I know that you
Gm7                    D
Threw away the key

D                     F#m                            Am                          G
Your cobbled roads are turning to gold in this my northern home
I can see into your soul, the clutter of mopeds under the colonnade
And a golden haired Croatian girl's my only hope for another day
And I met her at a sidewalk café.
I'd pay to see the look on your face
Gm7                                                 DMaj7
When you discover that I hold the key

CODA:
DMaj7, Dm7, Cm7
Dm9/11, Cm7 (vamp and fade)