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[Verse 1]
Well, he came home from the war with a party in his head,
And modified Brougham De – Ville,
And a pair of legs that opened up like butterfly wings,
And a mad dog that wouldn’t sit still!

[Verse 2]
Went and took up with a Sal – vation Army Band girl,
Who played ‘Dirty water’ from a sword -fish – trom – bone,
He went to sleep at the bot – tom of Ten – killer Lake,
And he said, “Gee, but it’s great to be home!”

[Verse 3]
Well, he came home from the war, with a party in his head,
And an idea for a fireworks dis – play,
And he knew that he’d be ready with a stainless steel ma – chete,
And a half a pint of Ballentine’s each day!

[Verse 4]
Then he holed up in room a – bove a hardware store,
Crying nothing there, but Hol – ly – wood tears,
And he put a spell on some poor little Crutchfield girl,
And stayed like that for twenty-seven years!

[Verse 5]
He’d packed up all his expect – ations,
He lit out for Cali – fornia,
With a flyswatter banjo on his knee,
With ‘Lucky Tiger’ in his angel hair,
And benzedrine for getting there,
They found him in a eucalyptus tree!

[Verse 6]
Lieutenant got him a cana – ry bird,
And skanked her head with eve – ry word,
And Chesterfielded moon – beams in a song,
And he got 20 years for lovin’ her,
From some Oklahoma Gover - nor,
Said, everything this doughboy does is wrong!

[Verse 7]
Now, some say he’s doing ‘The o – bitu – ary mambo’,
Now, some say he’s hangin’ on the wall,
Perhaps, this yarn’s the only thing…
…That holds this man to – gether,
Some say that he was never here at all!

[Verse 8]
Some say they saw him down in Birmingham,
Sleeping in a box – car going by,
And if you think that you can tell a bigger tale,
I swear to God, you’d have to tell a lie!

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INTRO:
(–quickly—)

Well, you hate those diesels rollin’
And those Friday nights out bowlin'
When he’s off for a twelve hour lay overnight

You wish you had a dollar
For every time he hollered that he’s
Leaving and he’s never comin’ back

But the curtain laced below
And his hands on your pillow
And his trousers are hangin’ on the chair

You’re lyin’ through your pain, babe
But you’re gonna tell him he’s your man
And you ain’t got the courage to leave

He tells you that you’re on his mind
You’re the only one he’s ever gonna find
It’s kind-a special, understands his complicated soul

But the only place a man can breathe
And collect his thoughts is
Midnight and flyin’ away on the road

But you’ve packed and unpacked
So many times you’ve lost track
And the steam heat is drippin’ off the walls

But when you hear his engines
You’re lookin’ through the window in the kitchen and you know
You’re always gonna be there when he calls
‘Cause he’s a truck drivin’ man,
Stoppin’ when he can
He’s a truck drivin’ man, stoppin’ when he can

[Verse 1]
I grew up here now all of my life
But I dreamed someday I’d go
Where the blue-eyed girls and red guitars and
The naked rivers flow

I’m not all I thought I’d be
I always stayed around
I've been as far as Mercy and Grand
Frozen to the ground

[Verse 2]
I can’t stay here and I’m scared to leave
Just kiss me once and then
I’ll go to hell, I might as well
Be whistlin’ down the wind

The bus is at the corner
The clock on the wall
Broken down windmill
There’s no wind at all
I’ve yelled and I cursed
If I stay here I’ll rust
I’m stuck like a shipwreck
Out here in the dust

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3]
The sky is red and the world’s on fire
And the corn is taller than me
The dog is tied to a wagon of rain
And the road is as wet as the sea

[Chorus 2]
And sometimes the music from a dance
Will carry across the plains
And the places that I’m dreaming of
Do they dream only of me?

[Verse 4]
There are places where they never sleep
And the circus never ends
So I will take the Marleybone coach

And be whistling down the wind
so I will take the Marleybone coach
Whistling down the wind

Well there’s one thing you can’t lose
It’s that feel
Your pants, your shirt, your shoes
But not that feel

You can throw it out in the rain
You can whip it like a dog
You can chop it down like an old dead tree
You can always see it
When you’re coming into town

Once you hang it on the wall
You can never take it [Em7sus4]down

But there’s one thing you can’t lose
And it’s that feel
You can pawn your watch and chain
But not that feel
It always comes and finds you
It will always hear you cry
I cross my wooden leg
And I swear on my glass eye
It will never leave you high and dry
Never leave you loose
It’s harder to get rid of than tattoos

But there’s one thing you can’t do
Is lose that feel
You can throw it off a bridge
You can lose it in the fire
You can leave it at the altar
But it will make you out a liar
You can fall down in the street
You can leave it in the lurch
Well you say that it’s gospel
But I know that it’s only church

And there’s one thing you can’t lose
And it’s that feel
It’s that feel

INTRO:

I’m leaving my family leaving all my friends
My body’s at home but my hearts in the wind
Where the clouds are like headlines on a new front page sky
My tears are salt water and the moons full and high

And I know Martin Eden’s gonna be proud of me
Many before me have been drawn by the sea
To be up in the crow’s nest singing my say
Shiver me Timbers as I’m sailing away

CHORUS:

Now the fog’s lifting and the sand’s shifting
I’m drifting on out
Old captain Ahab he ain’t got nothing on me
So swallow me , follow me
I’m travelling alone
Blue waters my daughter I’m gonna skip like a stone

So please call my misses tell her not to cry
Cause my goodbye is written by the moon in the sky
Nobody knows me I can’t fathom my stayin’
Shiver me timbers as I’m sailing away

(CHORUS)

I’m leaving my family leaving all my friends
My body’s at home but my hearts in the wind
Where the clouds are like headlines on a new front page sky
Shiver me timbers as I’m sailing away

Capo on 1st fret (sounding key C minor)
Chords:
Bm: 224432 (alternate between 5th and 6th bass strings)
D: x00232 (alternate between 4th and 5th)
F#7: 242322 (alternate between 5th and 6th)
Em: 022000 (alternate between 5th and 6th)

Life is whittled life’s a riddle
Man’s a fiddle that life plays on
When the day breaks and the earth quakes
Life’s a mystery all day long
You tell me who gives a good God damn
You’ll never get out alive
Don’t go dreaming don’t go scheming
A man must test his metal in a crooked old world
Starvin’ in the belly, starvin’ in the belly
Starvin’ in the belly of a whale
Oh you’re starvin’ in the belly, starvin in the belly
Starvin’ in the belly of a whale

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#This file is the author’s own work and represents their interpretation of the #
#song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 19:21:15 +0200
From: Morten Sickel
Subject: Fumblin’ with the blues, Tom Waits

Friday left me fumblin’ with the blues
And it’s hard to win when you always lose
Because the nightspots spend your spirit
beat your head against the wall
two dead-ends you still got to choose

You know the bartenders they all know my name
and they catch me when I’m pulling up lame
and I’m a pool-shooting-shimmy-shyester shaking my head
when I should be living clean in stead

You know the ladies I’ve been seeing off and on
well they spend your love then they’re gone
you can’t be loving someone who is savage and cruel
Take your love and then they leave on out of town
No they do

When I’m falling in love, It’s such a breeze
but it’s standing up that’s so hard for me
I wanna sqeeze you but I’m scared to death I’ll break your back instead
You know your perfume, well it won’t let me be

You know the bartenders they all know my name
and they’ll catch me when I’m pulling up lame
and I’m a pool-shooting-shimmy-shyster shaking my head
when I should be living clean in stead

so come on baby, let your love light shine
gotta bury me inside of your fire
cause your eyes are enough to blind me
you’re like a-looking at the sun
you gotta whisper tell me I’m the one
come on and whisper tell me I’m the one
gotta whisper tell me I’m the one
come on and whisper tell me I’m the one
# Morten.Sickel@nrpa.no
# Comments are welcome

[Fm/Ab] [Fm/Ab]
[Verse 1]
Come with[Fm/Ab] me my_ love to the[Fm/Ab] sea, the [Bsus(b5)] sea of [Bbsus(b5)] love
I want to [Fm/Ab]tell you [Bsus(b5)]How much I [Bbsus(b5)]love you
I’m drowning in a sea of love[Fm/Ab][-][Fm/Ab]

[Verse 2]
Do you re -[Fm/Ab] member the night we met?
That’s the night I[Fm/Ab] knew you [Bsus(b5)] were my [Bbsus(b5)] pet
I want to [Fm/Ab]tell you [Bsus(b5)]How much I [Bbsus(b5)]love you
I’m drowning in a sea of love[Fm/Ab][-][Fm/Ab]

Come____ with me
Eb C7 C7 C7(bass line run CC BbBb AbAb GG)
To______ the sea___ Yeah….

[Verse 3]
Do you re -[Fm/Ab] member the night we met?
That’s the night I[Fm/Ab] knew you [Bsus(b5)] were my [Bbsus(b5)] pet
I want to [Fm/Ab]tell you [Bsus(b5)]How much I [Bbsus(b5)]love you
I’m drowning in a sea of love[Fm/Ab][-][Fm/Ab]

(Use flanger to obtain some resemblance original sound effect)
[Fm/Ab] [Fm/Ab] [Bsus(b5)Bbsus(b5)] [Fm/Ab] [Bsus(b5)Bbsus(b5)]

e|—–4?–4———-|—–4?–4———————|—–4?–4———————-|———-6?—|
B|-/6——–6—5-6–|-/6——–6——————-|-/6——–6——————–|——/5——-|
G|————-5——|—————-4—3—1——|—————–4—3—1——|–/5———–|
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Tow Waits
Broken bicycles

Intro:

[G7/5+]
Broken bicycles old busted chains
with rusted handlebars out in the rain
somebody must have an orphanage for
all these things that nobody wants any more
September is[A#madd9/5-] reminding July
it’s time to be [Gadd9-]saying goodbye
summer is gone
but our love will remain
like old broken [Gadd9-]bicycles
out in the rain

[G7/5+]
broken bicycles don’t tell my folks
there’s all those playing cards
pinned to the spokes
laid down like skeletons out on the lawn
the wheels won’t turn when the other has gone
the seasons can[A#madd9/5-] turn on a dime
somehow I forget[Gadd9-] every time
for all the things that you’ve given me
will always stay
broken but [Gadd9-]I’ll never
throw them away

[G7/5+]

Chords:
G7/5+(363443) A#madd9/5-(032320) C9(332333)
[Gadd9-(356433)] [(345353)]

â’ ’ â?? ‘ ‘ ‘

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D|———0—-4—3—-/4——6–5—-/6—————|
A|——-0—2–2—1—-/2——7–6—-/7—————|
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E|–0-2–2/3—3–3–3—-x—–2–2—-2——0-2-3–3–3———222-222–|

| ‘ Downstroke
| ‘ Upstroke
| / Slide up
| Slide down

Put a dea[(Bbm)]d cat on the rai[(Eb9)]lroad tracks
Where the wolf[(Bbm)]-bane's blooming by the tre[(Eb9)]stle
and get the eyeball of a rooster and the stones from a ditch
and wash ‘em down with bilge water and say you’ll never snitch

Take the but[(Bbm)]tons from a yellow jacket and the fea[(Eb9)]thers from a buzzard
and the blo[(Bbm)]od from a bounty hunter’s cold[(Eb9)] black heart
Catch the tears of a widow in a thimble made of glass
tell your mama and papa they can kiss your ass

Poi[(Bbm)]son all the water in the wis[(Eb9)]hin’ well
and han[(Bbm)]g all them scarecrows from a syc[(Eb9)]amore tree
Burn down them honeymoons put ‘em in a pillow case
And wait next to the switch blades at the amusement park for me

Str[(Bbm)]angle all the Christmas carols scr[(Eb9)]atch out all your prayers
Tie[(Bbm)] ‘em up with barbed wire and pus[(Eb9)]h them down the stairs
I’ll whittle you a pistol for keeping nightmares of the blinds
Those sunsabches always seem to sneak up from behind

Syp[(Bbm)]hon all the gas from your dad[(Eb9)]dy’s pickup truck
Fil[(Bbm)]l up Johnny’s T-Bird I got[(Eb9)] a couple of bucks
Put a little perfume and a ribbon in your hair
Be careful that you don’t wake up the hounds

Tea[(Bbm)]r a bolt of lightning off the sid[(Eb9)]e of the sky
And thr[(Bbm)]ow it in a cedar chest if you wan[(Eb9)]t I’ll tell you why
Bring the gear shift knob from a 49 Merc
and lay down here beside me let me hold you in the dirt

W[(Bbm)]e’re gonna tremble tear the thr[(Eb9)]oat out of the night
Sink your tee[(Bbm)]th into my shoulder dig your nai[(Eb9)]ls into my back
Tell that little girl to let go of my sleeve
You’ll be a woman when I catch you, come, baby, fall in love with me

With my doub[(Bbm)]le barrel shotgun and a who[(Eb9)]le box of shells
We’ll cel[(Bbm)]ebrate the 4th[(Eb9)] of July
We’ll do a hundred miles per hour spendin’ someone else’s dough
And drive all the way to Reno on the wrong si – de of the road