Invitation To The Blues Chords by Tom Waits

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_ _ Well, she's super gets a register, _ _ [Bbm] _ an apron and a spatula
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Yesterday's delivery, _ [Abm] _ tickets for the bachelor
_ _ [Gm] She's a moving _ violation _ [D] from her conch down to [A] her shoes
_ [Dm] Well, it's just an [D] invitation [A] to the [Dm] blues
_ _ _ _ _ [D] And [Gm] she feels just like Cagney
[C] She looks like Rita _ Haywood
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The counter of the _ Schwab's _ drugstore
_ _ _ You [Gm] wonder if she might be single
[C] She's a loner like some angle
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Got to be patient [A] and pick [Dm] up a clue
[A] She [Dm] said, how you gonna like them _ _
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She said, anyway [F] is the only _ [Abm] way
Careful [Db] not to gamble
[Gm] On a car with a suitcase
And [D] a ticket getting out [A] of here
[Dm] In a tired bus _ station
And [Bbm] old Paris shoes
_ _ [D] Ain't nothing but an [A] invitation _ [Dm] to the blues _
_ _ _ [D] But you [Gm] can take your eyes off her
[E] Get [C] another cup of Java
_ [F] It's just the way she pours it for you
Joking with the customers
_ [Gm] Mercy, mercy, Mr.
Percy
There [C] ain't nothing back in Jersey
But [F] a broken down _ jalopy
Of a man [A] I left _ behind
And [Dm] the dream that I was chasing
_ _ [Bbm] A battle with the _ booze
[A] An open invitation _ to the [Dm] blues _
But _ [D] _ [Gm] she used to have a sugar daddy
_ And [C] a candy apple _ caddy
[F] And a bank account and _ everything
Accustomed to the finer things
[Gm] He probably left her for a _ socialite
[C] And he didn't love her self at night
[F] And then he's drunk and never [G] even [A] told her that he cared
_ So [Dm] they took his _ registration
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Car keys and his shoes
_ _ [D] Left her with [A] an invitation _ to the [Dm] blues
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_ _ _ [D] But [Gm] there's a _ continental trail
That's [C] leaving the local bus tonight
Good [F] evening, you can have my seat
I'm sticking around here for a while
Give [Gm] me a room at the Squire
I've _ _ [C] got a lot of fillin' stations hiring
_ _ [F] I can eat here every night
What [A] the hell have I got to lose?
_ Got [Dm] a crazy sense of design
_ [Bbm] Go or stay, I've got to choose
_ _ [A] I'll accept your invitation _ _ [Dm] to the blues _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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