Bukowski #3 chords by Tom Russell

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Verse 1
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 (E minor)  (G major)  (E minor)  (C major) Finally,  in
March of 1991,
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Bukowski  (B minor) wrote,
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I have  (C major) a sick and  (C sharp major) frantic need to get words running
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Dm 
 (C major) across a piece of paper.  (G major)  (D minor) 
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Em 
 (C major) I   (E minor) feel luck that after all the decades of
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 (D minor) starvation  (C major) an d madness,  (E minor) 
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C 
 (D minor) that  (C major) I'm now able to survive
on my words.
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That I  (D major) no longer need  (D minor) work for any (C major) body
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Or  (E minor) look for a park bench for a
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 (D major) night's sleep  (D minor)  (C major) 
Now at my age they'll soon be
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 (B flat major) calling my number
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That's  (E minor)  (C major) all right with  (E minor) me
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There's  (C major) not much around here
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C 
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The  (E minor)  (C major) longer I  (B flat major) live the worse it all looks  (B minor)  (E minor) 
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 (C major) All I have  (B minor) now are my  (C major) goddamn
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 (B minor) words  (B flat major) to play with.  (C major)  (E minor) 
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 (C major) 