Chords for Tom Waits-Burma Shave (album version)

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[Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ [Db] _ _ [F] _ _ [Cm] _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [C] _
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_ _ _ [D] A licorice [C]
tattoo, _ _ [D] _ _ telegun, metal [C] blue,
_ _ _ [Dm] _ [Bb] [C] scrawled across [Fm] the shoulders [Eb] [Ab] of a [Db] dying _ [E] _ town.
_ _ [C] _
_ [Dm] Took [Bb] the one [C]-eyed Jackson [Dm] across a _ [C] railroad track,
[D] and the [C] scar [Fm] on its belly [Eb] [Ab] pulled a stranger _ [Db] _ [E] _ _
_ [C] _ [E] [Dm] passing through.
_ [C] _
_ _ _ [D] He's a juvenile [C]
delinquent, _ [Dm] never [Bb] learned how [E] to [C] behave,
_ [Cm] [Bbm] but the cops never think to look [E] in _ _ [C] _
_ _ [Dm] [Bb] Burma's safe.
_ [C] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ [Bbm] The road was [E] like a ribbon, _ [C] _ _ [Dm] the moon _ [D]
was [C] like a bone,
_ [Dm] it [C] didn't [Fm] seem to be [Eb] like any [Ab] guy [Db] she'd ever [E] _ [C] known.
_ [Dm] He kinda looked like [D] Folly [C] Granger _ [D] with his hair slicked [C] back.
_ She [Dm] says, I'm a [C] sucker [Fm] for a fella [Eb] _
[Ab] in a [Fm] cowboy _ _ [Ab] _ hat.
[C] _ _ _ [E] _ [D] How far [C] are you going?
[Dm] Said, [Bb] depends [Fm] on what [E] you [C] mean.
_ He [Db] says, I'm [Bbm] only _ stopping here to get some _ [C] gasoline. _ _ _ _
[D] I guess I'm [C] going that-a-way _ [D]
just as long as [C] it's paid. _ _
[Bbm] I guess you'd say I'm on my way [E] to _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Dm]
[Bb] Burma's safe.
_ [C] _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
And with [Db] her knees upon [E] her glove compartment,
[C] _ [D] she took out her barrette, [E] _
_ [Bb] had her hair [C] spilled [Fm] out like root [Eb] beer,
[Ab] and she popped her gum [E] and arched her [C] _ back.
_ [Dm] [Bb] Yeah, but _ Marysville [E] ain't nothing _ [D] but a _ wise [C] spot in the road.
_ [E]
[Bbm] Some nights my heart pounds like thunder,
[E] don't know why it don't [C] _ explode.
_ [D] Cause everyone [C] in this stinkin' town's [D] got one [Dm] foot [C] in the grave. _
_ [Db] And I'd [Bbm] rather take my chances _ [E] out in _ _ [C] _ _ _
[D] Burma's shade.
[C] _ _ _ [Fm] _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ [C] Presley's where I go by, _ [D] why _ don't you change [C] the station?
_ [Dm] Count the [Bb] [C] grain _ [Fm] _
[Eb] elevators [Ab] in the [Db] review _ [E]
mirror.
_ [C] _ _ She [D] said, mister, you know [C] where you point this thing?
It's [Bb] got to be the hell [C] out of the stain
_ [Dm] of [Bb] going [Ab] to [Db] bed [E] with every [C] _ _
dream [Dm] that dies [Bb] here every [C]
morning.
_ [Bbm] And so she drilled me [E] a hole _ [C] with [Dm] a barber [Bb] pole.
_ [C] _ _ [Db] And I'm jumping [E] my [C] parole _ [Bb] just like a fugitive [C] tonight.
_ _ Why [Db] don't you have another [E] [C] swig _ [Dm] past [Bb] that car [C] if you're so brave?
[Bbm] I want to get there before the sun comes [E] up in [Bb] _ [C] _ _ _ [Dm] Burma's [Bb] shade.
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [C] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [Dm] [Bb] The [C] spider [Fm] web [Eb] crack [Ab] and the Mustang [Db] _
[E] _ _ [C] screams.
[Dm] The [C] smoke [Ab] from the [Eb] tires [Ab] and the twisted [Db] _ _ [E] _
machine.
[C] _ _ _ And [Dm] if the [Bb] nickels were [C] the dreams, [Ab] _ [Dm] every [Bb] wishbone that [E] they _ saved
[Bbm] lies swindled from them on the way [E]
to _ [C] _ _ _ [Dm] Burma's [Bb] shade.
_ [C] The _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bbm] _
sun hit [E] the derrick [C] [D] and cast a bad-winged [C] shadow
_ _ _ [Db] up against [E] the [C] car door _ [D] on the shotgun [Bb] side.
[C] _ _ _ [Bbm] And when they pulled her from [E] the wreck, _ [C] _ you [Dm] know [Bb] [D] she's still out on her [C] shades. _
They [Bbm] say the dreams are growing wild _ just inside [E] of [Bb] _ _ [E] _ _ [Dm] Burma's [Bb] shades.
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