Town With No Cheer Chords by Tom Waits

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[Cm] Well, it's harder than [G] blazes [Eb] and _ all the [Eb] long phases _ _
_ [Cm] There'll be no oasis for a dry local graze [Ab]-shew
_ There'll _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ be no refreshment for a thirsty [Ab] jackal
_ From _ _ [C] _ [Cm] Melbourne to [Eb] Adelaide on the _ [Ab] overlander
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[G] _ _ [Cm] With newfangled [B] buffet cars and [Bb] faster _ [Ab] locomotives
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The _ [Cm] _ train stopped [Eb] and serviced _ [Ab] less and less often
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[D] _ _ [Cm] Oh, there's nothing _ sadder than a town [Bb] with no chief
[Eb] If _ [Ab] _
_ _ _ it cradled [B] the sight of [Cm] it, the quarantine was no longer [Ab] necessary _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [Cm] No spirits, no pills, water, and 80 dry locals
And [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ [Cm] the high noon [Bb] sun beats [Ab] _ 104
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_ [D] _ _ _ There's [Cm] a hummingbird trapped in a [Eb] closed-down shoe store
_ [Bb] _ [Cm] This _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Cm] tiny _ [B] Victorian rhubarb _ [Eb] kept [Ab] the watering hole open [Cm] for 65 [B] years
Now [Bb] _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Cm] it's boiling in a miserable March _ [Ab] 21st _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ [Cm] _ Wrapped [Eb] the hills in a [Ab] blanket of Paterson's curse
[D] The _
[Cm] _ _ _ train smokes down to Xylophone, [Bb] there'll be no stopping [Ab] here _ _
_ _ [Cm] Well, you can be as [Eb] thirsty in a town [Ab] with no chief
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_ _ _ [Cm] No barber, no branch water, [D] though the [Ab] _ [Cm] townspeople here _
[F] Fought a Vic [Eb] Rail decree to [Ab] send me
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[Cm] Oh, it's boiling [Eb] in a miserable [Ab] March 21st
_ [D] _ _ [Bb] Wrapped [Cm] the hills in a blanket of [Ab] Paterson's curse
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_ _ _ _ _ [Cm] The train smokes down to [Ab] Xylophone, there'll be no [D] stopping here
_ [A] _ [G] _ Well, [Cm] you can be as thirsty in a [Ab] town with no chief
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