Chinatown chords by Eric Andersen

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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There
was a murder down in
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Chinatown on a cold
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September late
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A teenage killer pulls a   gun,
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blood spatters on the plates
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Curious stop, the siren screams,
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soon there is a crowd
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Someone killed in
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Chinatown,
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they said it right out loud
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Families flee, the restaurant closed,
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people running fast
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Cops poke through the garbage,
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find a body by the trash
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While unseen steps walk through the
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rain to a subway underground
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A gun is tossed along the tracks and
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the wheel goes one more round
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The pretty couple pay the tab and
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walk across the street
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Flashing lights, they draw a stairway,
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canal and mulberry mead
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He wraps a jacket round her arms,
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with a quick eye down her brow
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A button now reveals a
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curve he never saw
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He likes her name,
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Charlene,
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Charlene sounds so clean
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And that she works on
Wall
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Street at a firm with twenty
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names
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Oh, an ambulance was one trip
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that could never be for them
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He puts his arm around her waist
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and lets the bottle spin
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Spins around, it goes around
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A gun is crushed beneath the tracks and
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the wheel goes one more round
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Charlene hikes a skirt up,
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pulls a stocking down her leg
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She takes the band out from her hair,
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gets up and shuts the shade
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A lawyer in her bathroom,
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she met him at  a bar
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She negotiates with the earth now,
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she gave up all    the stars
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The coolness of his hand exposed
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the softness of his skin
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She shows the wind between her legs and
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reaches out for him
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Her other hand can feel the dress,
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she has no wedding gown
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Twist the cloth of broken dreams and the wheel
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goes one more round
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At two a .m. it's finished,
she lights a cigarette
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She doesn't hear his lame excuse,
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I see him getting dressed
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Outside he walks to
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Chinatown to get something to eat
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Strange women make him nervous,
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the first time when they meet
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The restaurant wasn't open,
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only cops and broken glass
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Something evil happened here,
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a feeling told and met
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Takes a taxi in the rain,
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in the dark he looks around
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Finds a phone,
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makes a call and the wheel goes one more round
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Spins around, it goes around
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Just the cloth of broken dreams and the
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wheel goes one more round
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The stretcher from the ambulance
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drops a body at the morgue
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It's quiet for a
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Sunday night, just a few above the floor
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They roll into a cold room,
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where they write a short report
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A face with no identity,
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they didn't have much more
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Meanwhile in a bed room,
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two eyes look in the mir ror
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A face with no identity,
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with a voice no one can hear
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She pulls the window shades,
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sees the lights of
Chinatown
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With a dead dream of the living,
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the wheel goes one more round
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It goes around, it spins around
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The face with no identity,
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and the wheel goes one more round
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It  goes around, it spins around
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With the daydream of the living
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The wheel goes round and round
It was a murder down in
Chinatown
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It was a murder down in
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Chinatown
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Just a minute down in
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Chinatown
Just a minute down in