Thin Lizzy's Borderline: a good ballad for almost beginners

Ok here it is a quite easy song that a friend of mine teached me a couple of days ago. It is a classic slow number from Thin Lizzy's “Jailbreak” album (or was it Johnny the fox: I should check!). The song is perfect for people who have been playing for a few months (like me!!) because it has just few easy chords and a manageable rhythm, the absolute beginners should play it with a simplified pattern.

First thing the chords: they are the same of Poison's “Every rose has its thorn” or Skid Row's “I remember you” only inverted, so

verse:

C add 9 – G add 5 (play each for a measure and repeat it 2 times)
D – C (play each half a measure)
Em (2 measures)

chorus:
C – G (each one measure)
Em (2 measures)

pattern for a full measure:

D udu D udu

where D is a quarter note and udu one octave and two sixtheens so udu lasts as long as D. In term of beats

D = 1
udu= 2
D = 3
udu = 4

The only tricky part is when in the verse you changhe from D to C because it will go

D udu (for the D)

and

D udu (for the C)

Of course you could play other patterns like

D ddu D ddu (full measure), where ddu lasts as long as D

The absolute beginner could play just

D D D D or

D Du D Du for each chord (1, 2&, 3, 4&)

Enough of talk, so here is the song and let me know if there are some mistakes

Matteo

verse 1

Midnight in the big city
At the bar drinking all on my own
Just thinking about that girl and me
How something's going wrong

Mister, tell me, what's my saving grace?
The back room boys
Were all telling me
I'm a borderline case

(chorus)

Back on the borderline one more time

verse 2

Seven beers and still sober
It's time to change to something stronger
I cannot take this scene no longer
She could have told me it's all over

Back in my home town
The old place is still the same
But time can cast a spell over something
You can't go back again

chorus
Back on the borderline one more time

verse 3
Mister, fill me another
Till I go crazy and it turn my mind around
Just pass that bottle one more time
And slowly drink it down

Jeanie can I tell you?
The shame of my disgrace
It's just love or rejection
For this borderline case

Back on the borderline one more time

I'm on my bended knees crawling
I'm begging you darling