Chords for Janis Ian Belle of the Blues video

_ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ _
[D#m] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [E] _ _ _
[C#m] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
[C#] I'm the _ whale _ [D#m] of the blues
[D#] _ [C#m] _ _ And it's [A#] easy [F#] to see
_ If I [C#] win _ [A#m] or I _ lose
_ [E] _ _ It's all [C#] one to me
_ [F#] I was _ born on [F#m] a shell _
_ [C#] In the rare books [A#m]
library
_ _ [D#] I [A] reside _ _ by myself _ _
[D#] With my books and my TV
_ _ [A#m] _ _ [C#] _ _ I'm on old [D#m] age pension
[F] _ _
[E] For the _ fossilized [F#] routine
_ _ _ [G#] _ _ [D#] Anybody [A#m] for nostalgia
_ Put [B] a record _ _ on [C#] and see _
Here's a memory _ _ [F#m] of a golden [Cm] day
[C#] _ And [G#] a [A#m] heartbreak run cold _ _
[A] _ _ All that led us isn't gone
_ [G#] You get no [D#] love for free
_ [F#] You live _ _ [C#m] and you [F#m] die _ [B] _
_ _ [C#] and [G#] I'll _ _ [A#m] _
pray
_ _ _ [A] _ _
But in the end it's mine
_ _ And [G#] nobody has a right to [C#] say _
_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ [D#] _ _ _
[F#m] _ _ Let _ _ [C#] go [G#] _ down [A#m] silently _ _ _
_ _ _ _ I'll go down screaming
_ Give [G#m] it back if it belongs to [D#m] _ me
_ [C#] _ _
I'm the bell of [D#m] _ _ [D#] _ _
_ _ [E] the blues
_ I'm [F#] used to mingling
_ _ [C#] _ With the criminal [A#m] of _ _ _ _ [B]
our _ _ _ [C#] _ _ society
_ _ [F#] _ I promise [F#m] some _ roses
_ [C#] _ _ And an [G#] eight by ten [A#m] of me
_ _ [A] But _ _ when the party's over
_ _ [G#] _ They're all too glad to _ _ _ _ [C#] leave
Their children [D#m] sing of sorrow _ _
[E] _ It's the same [F#] old _
[C#] routine
[D#] [C#] They're begged and [A#m] they're borrowed
_ _ [B] Someone else's _ _ [C#] misery _ _ _ _
[F#m] It's an easy act to follow
At [C#] _ _ [Cm] least an easy [A#m] one for me
_ Give [A] _ _
_ me my _ tomorrows
You [G#] can have my _ _ _ free _ [C#] _ _ _ _ [C#m] _ _
[F#m] _ _ _ _ [C] [C#] souvenirs _
[G#] From an old [A#m]-fashioned _ school _
[A] _ At least a cold cat on a pillow
_ Like an [F#] old _ -fashioned [G#] _ fool
_ _ [C#m] _ Go [C#] _ [F#m] down _ lightly
_ [C#] _
Go [G#] down [A#m] silently _ _
_ _ [A] _ You go down [Am] lonely
_ _ [G#] _ _ You go [C#m] _ down [A#] like [C#] _
_ _ me
[D#m] _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ [F#] _
_ _ [E] _ [C#] I'm the bell of _ _ [D#] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [F#] the blues _
[E] _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ _
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