Chords for Jack Kerouac - I Had A Slouch Hat Too One Time

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[Ebm] I had [A] a slouch hat too one time, [Ab] the old slouch hat.
[C] I just keep walking around, he keeps walking around with me, around and around that [Fm] necktie
counter we [Bb] went. _
When it rained I wore my old slouch hat. _
[G] It was a good felt that I [Am] had to carry through many rainy day, [F] late fall and early [Dm] spring.
_ [B] [Fm] Perhaps it was a rainy day and the house dick might have saw my hat.
_ Each tie on that ring worth six bucks.
Brooks Brothers, _ sixty bucks worth of ties.
_ [F] Slacks with peculiarities.
[G] I couldn't even find a pair of slacks [A] I thought it was suitable to wear.
[Am] _ _ [Ab] Wrapped one [Fm] pair around me and [Gm] pinned it in with a safety pin.
_ [Db] Pulled up my trousers and went out and [Fm] looked at [Gm] myself in the mirror.
Oh no, [Am] those won't do.
And I walked out.
[F] Wrapped the [E] slacks around my waist, [Gm] took two other pair, went [F] to the mirror, threw them
at the salesman.
No, [D] those won't do.
Good [Eb] afternoon.
And walked out.
[E]
The [Bm] slouch hat I got at [Bb] Harvard Club, [G] Yale Club, Princeton Club or one or the other,
Dartmouth Club, University Club.
[Bb] _
Always borrowed the Yacht [Gm] Club because it was a little [Bb] over my kin.
[F] _ _ _ _ [Em] Because the doorman [Ab] knew that only [Gm] Mr.
Astor, Mr.
Vanderbilt, Mr.
Whitney belonged.
He [Fm] couldn't say, good morning, Mr.
Astor, [G] because he knew I wasn't Mr.
Astor.
_ Always figured a way to heal into those other clubs. _
Not only a member of who's who, but a [Bb] who's who also have to be a member of [D] who's who
in New York in the special clique of [Am] who's.
_ _ _ _ [B] I get in [Gm] the athletic club many times.
[G] And I'd go up in the billiard room.
[Gm] I would wander back around the room, [C] hands in back, and [Db] every coat rack I backed up [Am] against
filled with a wallet.
_ [Gm] One day I walked out of there with [A] ten wallets.
[Dm] _ _ [F] _ Bellboy looking me over. _
[Bb] Pretty soon a very dignified looking gentleman come up and buzzed the bellboy.
Says, who?
And I says, man [F] told me his name while we were [Ab] drinking at the bar and told me to meet
him in this billiard room in the athletic club.
[G] I don't see him, so I [A] best I better go.
Tell _ _ [Ab] _ [F] _ [E] me about the [Db] old slouch hat.
[C] Oh, one of my numerous trips to one of the numerous clubs in New York City.
The hat finally was left in the hotel, which I had to leave rather hardly one night, never to return.
[E] So [Gb] the hat was given to the castoffs of [C] the hotel, which they collect in rummaged [Bb] cells.
It now [C] be worn by one of the members of Skid Row, New York [Ebm] City, the [C] Bowery.
_ [Bm] I seen that hat [Dm] by moonlight.
[D] Yeah, [Bb] I had a pointed mustache [C] and I mean pointed half inch from here.
Double breasted [Cm] vest and a derby hat and striped trousers, [G] English shoes, [Am] black, very pointed.
They were Hannah [Dm] shoes.
[Am] People on Broadway [Em] turn and look at me.
The worst is [Bb] yet to come.
[C] I had a pained snee, the long [Dm] black ribbon to my buttonhole [Em] and I wore a carnation white [Gm] or red.
Boy, did I look [Fm] like [F] something.
A year later, I got caught.
I was dressed differently and everything, but boy, that [C] mustache and that pince necks
was really out of this world.
_ [Em] I [Gm] used that outfit [C] six months.
Finally had to [Dm] pack it in because it was too well worn.
[B] _ Pince ne was [G] in a [Dm] coat I stole.
_ Mustache I grew [F] in the sanitarium [Ab] while taking one of my [C] numerous drug cures.
My mother [G] comes to see me.
She says, oh no, cut it [D] off.
_ [C] I'm just having a little fun, mother.
_ _ [Em] Took [F] it on the lamb and went to Canada.
_ _ [C] Late at night, I'm full of morphine and I come down full of goofballs [D] too.
[Am] This guy had ventriloquist [E] doll and he gave out this Texas [Cm] weaning routine.
Hello sucker.
[F] We like your money as well as anybody else's.
As a matter of fact, the bigger your role, the more we [D] take you.
[B] He used to get everybody [C] interested with the doll and cut out silhouettes, put stripes
in your tie.
[Bb] _ [Dm] Wound up in his room, gave him a shot of morphine.
[F] _ _ [D] Out on the highway, I thumbed a ride into Buffalo and I put the bum on the [Eb] guy for something to eat.
He said, [G] eat in my drugstore.
_ So he went in the back and he [Em] had corn on the cob [Ab] and boiled [Am] potatoes.
I said, hey fella, [C] I always hear people talk about morphine.
What's it [F] look like?
He shows me.
He [A] had a key, a cabinet.
_ [C] He had bottles of hundreds, quarter grains, half grains, pentapon, dilaudid, [Gm] everything.
As soon as he tended the customers, I emptied the bottles.
Got out of there pretty quick, [Fm] bought a safety pin in Buffalo and took a shot in the [Bb] toilet.
[Fm] _ _
[F] _ Come out [Fm] and saw a fella shaving, [Eb] his coat hanging there.
Hung my own coat [Em] and gave his coat a brush [Fm] in my hand.
Felt his wallet, washed my hands, went out [Em] and took off with the wallet.
So I started [F] out on a shoplifting campaign [Cm] in Buffalo.
It was about 1910.
[F] Wasn't very [Cm] experienced at it.
_ Started out with a top coat and [Am] sold it in the taxi cab stand. _
[Cm] Next day I decided to get [Em] myself some suits and I [G] went up and I had a suit box and I walked
about and put the suit box [F] in one of the dressing rooms, looked and fooled [Dm] in the mirror,
went out and I hawked those two.
_ _ _ _ [G] Next day, like a [C] damn fool, go out to [F] the same store, but I got a newspaper instead
[C] of a suit box.
Thought I'd try [G] a new [Em] routine.
[C] Two guys kind of watching me.
I went in and wrapped myself up, two suits, [A] went in the elevator.
[C] Bottom gentleman tapped me on the arm, will you come with me please? _
And the county jail, they ate breakfast, you got oatmeal with one [Gm] spoonful of molasses.
For [G] lunch, [Cm] stew, [F] mostly bones, [A] graveyard stew.
And for supper, dinner at night, [F]
beans.
And [C] you couldn't smoke.
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