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Downtown L.A. easy guitar chords by
J.j. Cale
J.j. Cale

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Intro 1
Am
G
D
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G
D
Am

G
Am
G
Am

G
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Am

Verse 1
Am
G

Downtown l.a. is a de pressing place
D

You can see young men with
Am

deep lines in their face

They could all be something
G

if somebody cared
D

But nobody knows they're
Am

even down there
G

Old woman walking with
Am

a sack on her back
G

Picking up the garbage
Am

people put out back
G
Am

Men down there trying to walk the line
G
Am

Trading their soul for a bottle of wine
G

In the inner city it ain't no good
D
Am

It's a long, long way from hollywood

Bad kind of people got a
G

hold of the street
D

They got something that
Am

the poor people need
G
Am

At two in the morning they bust your head
G

Fat chance walking you'll
Am

end up dead
G

It' the law of the jungle
Am

with a gun and a knife
G
Am
G
D
Am

If you stay long enough you lose
G

D
Am
G

Am
G
Am
G

Am
G
D
Am

your

life
G

Man down there he couldn't be lying
D
Am

He was sleeping in the street and he

couldn't keep from crying

Said he'd been there for
G

twenty one years
D

Through the bars and the brawls
Am

and the blues and the tears
G
Am

Prop up the front the back falls down
G
Am

All around the canyons of l.a. town
G

When he asked me for a dollar
Am

I looked him in his face
G
Downtown l.a. is a depressing place
Outro 1
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G

D
Am
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