Chords for Tom Waits - Shore leave

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[E] _ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ RUN!
_ _ _ _ _ RUN! _
_ [Cm] _ _ _ _ RUN! _
[A] _ [Gm] RUN!
_ _ RUN! _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ [G] [Gm] THE _ _ [C] _ [Gm] _
_ _ BLOCKS GOT OUR HEADS IN THE BLACK BOARD
_ I JUST RUN DOWN THE NATIONAL STREET
[Cm] I'd rather pay fat paycheck _ strapped to my hip sack
[Gm] than a shore league wristwatch underneath my feet.
[D] In a Hong Kong prison [Cm] _ on Cuban hills,
[Gm] I rolled down the gutter to the drug bank. _
_ _ And when I left all my papers on the tire corner open,
and I was in bare need of a shave,
[Cm] I slopped at the corner on a cold chow vein.
[Gm] I shot billiards with a midget until the rain [D] stopped.
_ I bought a [Cm] long sleeve shirt with hoisting socks,
[Gm] and some gum and a lighter and a knife. _
_ _ And a new deck of cards with girls on stack.
And I sat down and wrote a letter to my wife.
_ [Cm] I said, baby, _ [Gm] I'm so far away from home.
_ _ I _ [D] can't make it [Cm] out of my shell.
[Gm] _ I just love you so.
_ _ _ I was just pacing myself, trying to make it all last.
_ Squeezing all the right [Cm] flowers into day masks.
I heard a call.
[Gm] I thought baseball was the new technique.
I was in a real city.
_ [D] _ And I wondered how [Cm] I'd stay a moon outside
[Gm] and with this Chinatown affair.
And look down on Illinois and find you there. _ _ _
And I'm so far away from home. _ _
[Cm] I'm so far away [Bb] from [Cm] home.
[Gm] _
And I miss my pepper so. _ _ _
[D] I just can't make it up by [Cm] myself. _
_ [Gm] [Gb] I [Gm] just love you so. _
Surely. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ Surely.
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[Gb] Surely.
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_ _ _ _ Surely. _ _
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[Gm] Surely.
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[Gm] _ [D] _ _ _ _ [Cm] Surely. _
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