Black Market Baby Chords by Tom Waits

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_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [Ab] She _ [Abm] lives in a house _ _
_ [Bb] way back off the [Eb] roads.
_ [B] _ _ [Abm] There's a _ man with [F] a lantern and [Bb] he carries her _ soul.
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_ [Dbm] A coal stove and a [A] bed, _ _ _ [Abm] a skillet and a ham.
_ _ _ _ She [Dbm]
drove a camel through a [A] needle _ _ in [Eb] this sinking _ [Abm] boardwalk town.
_ _ [D] _ [Dbm] She's my black market baby.
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She's my black [Abm] market baby. _ _ _
_ [Ebm] She's a diamond.
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Walls to stay [Ab] _ cold. _
_ [E] _ _ _ [Db] Walls to stay [Ab]
cold.
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[Ab] I _ swang [Bb] out wide with [Abm] her.
_ [Bb] More _ [D] hills I am [Eb] gazing.
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Anything that you [Ab] wanted, _ [Eb]
you could [Bb] have.
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say that [A] prayers to _ _ [Abm] _
sinners ring a bell. _ _
_ [Dbm] But where Martha mistakes [A] the light bulb for the [Eb] _ moon _ angles to [B] hail. _ _
[Dbm] She's my black market baby. _ _
_ _ [Abm] She's my black market baby.
_ _ _ _ [F] She's a [Eb]
diamond.
_ _ _ Walls to stay [Abm] _ _ cold.
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_ _ [Abm] Walls to stay [Gb] cold.
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [Abm] There's no prayer like desire. _ _ _
_ [Bb] There's amnesia in a [Eb] kiss.
_ _ _ _ She's a [Abm] swan and a pistol _ _ and she [Dm] will follow you [Eb] like this.
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_ [Dbm] In Moberly, Missouri, [A] _
_ _ _ _ [Abm] the Iroquois Hotel.
_ _ She _ _
[Dbm] _ checked in with the [Db] president _ _ and [Eb] she ran up quite a bill.
[B] _ _ _ [Dbm] She's my black market baby. _ _ _
[B] She's my black market baby. _ _
_ _ [Bb] She's a [Eb] diamond. _ _
_ Walls to stay _ _ cold.
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [Gm] Walls to stay [B] cold.
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_ _ [E] _ _ _ Well, [Abm]
she a whiskey and a teacup.
She give [Bb] _ blondes a lousy [Eb] name.
_ [Bbm] _ _ [Abm] She's a bonzai _ Aphrodite _ and a [Bb] ticket back to Spain.
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_ [Dbm] She's a hard way to [Bb] go. _
[A] _ _ _ _ [Abm] There ain't no way to [Ab] stop.
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[Dbm] Every _ time [A] you flee, the red [Eb] good bag is coming _
_ [Ab] up.
_ [C] [Dbm] She's my black market baby.
_ _ _ [Abm] She's my black market baby. _ _ _
_ [Eb] She's a diamond. _ _ _
_ Walls to [B] stay _ [G] cold.
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Walls to stay cold.
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_ _ My baby walls to [E] stay cold.
_ _ [Ab] _ _ Cold.
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[G] _ _ _ [Bb] My [Abm] baby walls to [E] stay [D] cold. _ _ _
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