Intro: Cm Bb G# Bb (2x)  Fm Gm Cm (2x) 

verse 1: 
  Cm                        Gm 
A tenement, a dirty street, walked and worn by shoeless feet 
  Cm                              Eb                     Bb 
Inside it's long and so complete, watched by a shivering sun 
Cm                               Gm 
Old eyes in a small child's face watching as the shadows race 
        Cm                                       Eb                    Bb 
Through walls and cracks that leave no trace and daylight's brightness shun 

Chorus: 
Fm Gm                   Cm         Fm  Gm                   Cm  
     The days of Pearly Spencer, ah hah, the race is almost run 

verse 2: 
Cm                                 Gm 
Nose pressed hard on frosted glass gazing as the swollen mass 
   Cm                                   Eb               Bb 
On concrete fields where grows no grass stumbles blindly on 
Cm                             Gm 
Iron trees smother the air but withering, they stand and stare 
        Cm                              Eb                  Bb 
Through eyes that neither know nor care where the grass has gone 

Chorus: 
Fm Gm                   Cm         Fm  Gm                   Cm  
     The days of Pearly Spencer, ah hah, The race is almost run 

verse 3: 
Cm                                   Gm 
Pearly where's your milk white skin, what's that stubble on your chin 
     Cm                             Eb                  Bb 
It's buried in the rot gut gin, you played and lost not won 
    Cm                                     Gm 
You played a house that can't be beat, now look your head's bowed in defeat 
    Cm                                    Eb            Bb 
You walked too far along the street where only rats can run 

Chorus: 
Fm Gm                   Cm         Fm  Gm                   Cm  
     The days of Pearly Spencer, ah hah, the race is almost run 

Chorus: 
Fm Gm                   Cm         Fm  Gm                   G#                      Cm  
     The days of Pearly Spencer, ah hah, the race is almost run, the race is almost run 

Break: E Cm X2 Cm 

verse 4: 
  Cm                        Gm 
A tenement, a dirty street, remember worn and shoeless feet 
  Cm                           Eb                    Bb 
Remember how you stood to beat the way your life had gone 
   Cm                               Gm 
So Pearly don't you shed more tears for those best forgotten years 
      Cm                              Eb           Bb 
Those tenements are memories of where you've risen from 

Chorus: 
Fm Gm                   Cm         Fm  Gm                   Cm  
     The days of Pearly Spencer, ah hah, the race is almost won