Song From The Sixteenth Floor
Capo on 5th fret

|G       |C       |Am       |F       |G    C    |                   |G    C       |
                                               1.Something's frying         On the

|              |G     C     |            |G     F     |            ||:G     C     |
 floor below             I'm leaning out            of my window             2.The

|              |G    C      |                  |G    C      |                     |
 sky's on fire           The streets all aglow           And somebody's singing 

|G    F       |            |G                     |C                     |
        To the radio         I would jump from the sixteenth floor

|Am                 |F                |G                |C                   |
 If I only could get next to you        Put my head in a lions jaw
                     _________________  ___________
                    |1.               ||2.
|Am                 |F               :||F                |G                |
 If I only could get next to you        next to you        Take a ride on a

|C                  |Am                 |F              |Dm              |
 wrecking ball       Yes I would darling                      Every day I

|G                 |Dm                      |G           |Dm                      |
 speak your name          If I had wings I'd fly          Cause you're not here to

|                  |G                     |C                     |Am              |
 hold me             I would jump from the sixteenth floor

|F                 |G                |C              |Am            |F            |
                     Put my head in a lions jaw

|G           |C              |Am           |F            |G            |C         |
  I'd walk on burning coal                                  I'd sell my only soul

|Am          |F            |Dm            |G                |Dm                   |
                               Every day I speak your name      If I had wings I'd

|G           |Dm                      |                |G           |C            |
 fly          Cause you're not here to hold me

|G         |C          |G         |C         |G         |C          |G            |
                                                                       I'd walk on

|C             |Am          |F          |G             |C             |Am         |
 burning coal                               I'd sell my only soul

|F          |G                     |C                  |Am           |F           |
              I would jump from the sixteenth floor

|G                |C               |Am            |F           |G                 |
  Put my head in a lions jaw                                     Take a ride on Ni-

|C               |Am            |F            |G                 |C               |
 agara Falls                                    Over broken glass I would crawl

|Am           |F           ||:G         |C          |Am          |F         :|| Rpt
                                                                             ad lib

3.I'm walking the floor
  I'm climbing the walls
  I wake up from dreaming
  That's when I fall

Paul Kelly Guitar