Chords for Tom Waits - House Where Nobody Lives - Mule Variations .

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[Eb] That's a house on my block _ _ [Bb] that's abandoned and cold.
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The folks moved out of there a [Ab] long time ago.
[Ab] _ [Eb] And they took all their things [Bb] and they never _ came back.
[Eb] It _ looks like it's haunted [Ab] with the windows all cracked.
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Everyone calls [Bb] it the house, a house where [Ab] nobody lives. _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] Once it held laughter, _ _ _ _ _ once it held dreams,
did they [Eb] throw _ it away?
_ Did they know what it _ means?
[Ab] _ _ _ Someone's heart [F] breaks.
Did someone do somebody [Bb] _
wrong? _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Eb] Well, the paint is all cracked. _
It [Bb] was peeled off of the [Bb] wood. _
_ [Eb] _ _ The papers were stacked [Ab] on the porch where I stood.
_ [Eb] The weeds had grown up just [Bb] as high as the door.
_ _ There were birds in the chimney [Ab] and an old chest of drawers.
_ Looks like no one _ will [Bb] ever come back
to the house where nobody [Ab] lives. _
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Oh, well, [Ab] once it held laughter, _ _ _ once it held dreams,
[Eb] did they throw it away?
_ Did they know what it means?
[Ab] _ _ _ _
Someone's heart [F] breaks.
Or did someone do [Bb] somebody wrong? _ _ _ _ _
So _ _ _ [Eb] if you find someone, _ [Bb] someone to have, someone to hold,
[Eb] don't trade it for silver.
_ Oh, [Ab] don't trade it for gold.
Because [Eb] I have all of life's treasures,
[Bb] and they're fine and they're good.
[Eb] They remind me of [Ab] houses that just made of wood.
_ What [Eb] makes a house grand?
_ [Bb] Oh, it ain't the roof or the doors.
[Eb] If there's love in a house, it's [Ab] a palace for sure.
[Eb] Without love, it ain't nothing [Bb] but a house.
A house where nobody [Ab] _
_ lives.
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_ Without love, it ain't nothing but [Bb] a house.
A house where [Ab] nobody lives.
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