Wrong Side Of The Road Chords by Tom Waits

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_ _ _ [D] _ [Em] _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ [F#] _ _ [Bm] _
Put a dead cat [E] on the railroad track, _ _ [Bm]
wolf pangs blooming by the trestle.
[E] _ [G] I bought a rooster, _ [F#] stones from the ditch, _ [G]
wash him down with bilge water.
[F#] Say [E] you'll never snitch, [Bm] take the buttons from the yellow jockey,
[E] leather from a [F#] buzzard, [Bm] blood from a bounty [E] hunter's core black eye.
_ _ [G]
Get the pills of a widow [F#] in a thimble made of glass.
[G] Your mama and your papa, [F#m] they can kiss your [A] ass.
_ [Bm]
Poison all the water, [G] witch and whale, [E] _ _ [Bm]
hang all them scarecrows from [C#] a thick oak tree.
[B] _ [G] Burn down all them honey [F#] roosters, put them in a pillowcase.
[G] Wave a net through the switch blades, [F#] and hear a music in the park for me.
[Bm] Strangle all the [F#m] Christmas carols, [Em] scratch out all the [F#] prayers.
[Bm] Tie them up with barbed wire, [E] and put you down the [F#] stairs.
[G] I always knew a pistol would [F#] keep the nightmares off your blinds.
[G] Them sons of bitches always seemed [F#] to sneak up from behind.
_ [Bm]
Siphon all the gas from [E] your daddy's pickup truck.
[Bm] Fill up Johnny's teabag, [Em] and I got a couple bucks.
[G] I put out a little perfume, [F#] wrapped a ribbon in your hair.
_ [G]
Careful that you don't wake [F#m] up the [G#] hounds.
[Bm] Tear a bolt of lightning [E] from the side of the sky, [Bm] throw it in a cedar [F#m] chest.
[Em] You won't know till you [E] watch.
[G] Make the gas shift now, [F#] my 49 Mike.
_ [G]
Lie down here beside me, let [F#] me hold you in a day.
You're [Bm] gonna tremble, and tell the throne out of the night.
Stick your teeth into my shoulder, _ stick your nails into [E] my back.
Tell that [G] little girl to let go [F#] of my sleeve.
You'll [G] be a woman when I catch you.
[F#] Come baby, fall in love with me.
[Bm] With my double barrel shotgun, [Em] and a whole bag of [E] chow.
_ [Bm] _
Celebrate for the [Em] future life.
[E] _ [G] Grabbed you a hundred miles an hour, [F#] spending someone else's dough.
_ [G]
Drive all in Reno, [A] on the wrong side [Bm] of the road.
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [Bm] Wrong side of the road.
_ _ [E] _ _ [B] Wrong side of the road.
_ [Bm] _ _ _ Wrong side of the road.
Back and screw it up.
[C#] Back and screw it up.
[Bm] _
Back and [G] _ [Em] screw it up.
[Bm] Wrong side of the road.
_ _ [Em] _ _ [Bm] Wrong _
_ _ _ [Em] _ [Bm] side of the road.
[F#] Back and screw it up.
Back and screw it up.
[Bm] Back _ _ _
_ _ [E] and _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
[E] screw it _ [F#] _ _ [Bm] _ [E] up.
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_ _ [E] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ [F#m] _