J.J. Cale - Downtown L.A. Chords

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Downtown [G] LA, depressing [D] place, see you running [Am] in a deeper line.
It all be some, [G] somebody [D] care, but nobody [A] knows that we was down there.
[G] Old woman [Am] walking with a sack on her [G] back, picking up [Am] garbage, keep her foot out [G] back.
Men [Am] down there trying to walk her [G] back, ready to get some [Am] more bottles of wine. _ _
In the inner city, [G] it ain't no [D] good if you're long, long way [Am] from the hollow.
Bad kind of people [G] got a whole lot of grief, [D] they got [Am] something in the pocket.
[G] Two in the [Am] morning, the bus [Em] still, [G] if that chance [Am] walk and you end up [G] dead.
Long as the [Am] dog with a gun and a [G] knife, you stay long enough, [Am] you can go die.
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man [G] down there, he couldn't be aligned, [D] the streets, [A] [Am] the front.
Said he's been there [G] for 21 [D] years, he's a fine [Am] brawler, blues hair.
[G] He's probably from [Am] the back, all [G] around the [Am] canyons of LA [G] town.
Asked for [Am] a dollar, he looked him in [G] the face, downtown [D] LA, depressing [Am] place. _ _ _
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