Three Card Trick

The Clash

Tom: D

Intro Riff

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(repeat a second time but without the slide)
Verse 1
A        E                D            E 
Patriots of the wasteland torching two hundred years
A           E          D         E
Dragging my spirit back into the dungeon again
A          E            D              E
Bring back crucification cry the moral death's head legion
A           E     D                   E  
Using steel nails manufactured by the slaves in Asia
Chorus 1
A         D        E D  A       D          E            D 
You won't fall for that law and order is a baton in the rib
A         D        E D  A              D         E          D
You won't fall for that just like your mommy and your daddy did
Verse 2
A             E             D                E
Blood inside a fountain pen wrote you out of life again
A                 E              D                      E
And who knows any better than to kick and scratch under English weather
A                 E           D                   E
>From a chain gang to the mill the mill that sits on top of the hill
A                               E            D                       E
The fog drowned towns are gonna have to fade the wrong side of the a scissor blade
Chorus 2
A         D        E D  A       D          E            D   
You won't fall for that law and order is a baton in the rib
A         D        E D  A              D       E          D
You won't fall for that just like your mommy & your daddy did
A    D      E D A   D        E D
I'll eat my hat I'm gonna be sick
A    D       E D  A     D           E          D   
They own the pack while we play the three card trick, Go!
(play the intro riff again)
(then play verse 1 again)
(then play chorus 2 again)
Outro (some of the lyrics in the outro are ad-lib)
A     D                E D
Don't you remember the place
A        D       E D  
Where we hid the ace?
A        D         E D 
Yeah not thick but slick
A      D         E                   D  
Now we all gotta play the three card trick!