Downtown L.A.
Downtown L.A.

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

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  • D

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    • Intro 1





    Verse 1
    Downtown 
    l.a. 
    is 
    a 
    de
    pressing 
    place 

    You 
    can see 
    young 
    men 
    with 

    deep 
    lines 
    in 
    their 
    face 

    They 
    could 
    all 
    be 
    something 

    if 
    somebody 
    cared 

    But 
    nobody 
    knows 
    they're 

    even 
    down 
    there 

    Old 
    woman 
    walking 
    with 

    a sack 
    on 
    her 
    back 

    Picking 
    up 
    the garbage 

    people 
    put 
    out 
    back 

    Men 
    down 
    there 
    trying 
    to walk 
    the 
    line 

    Trading 
    their soul 
    for a 
    bottle 
    of 
    wine 

    In 
    the 
    inner 
    city 
    it 
    ain't 
    no 
    good 

    It's 
    a 
    long, 
    long 
    way 
    from 
    hollywood 

    Bad 
    kind 
    of 
    people 
    got 
    a 

    hold 
    of 
    the street 

    They 
    got 
    something 
    that 

    the poor 
    people 
    need 

    At 
    two 
    in 
    the morning 
    they 
    bust 
    your 
    head 

    Fat 
    chance 
    walking 
    you'll 

    en
    d 
    up 
    dead 

    It' the 
    law 
    of 
    the 
    jungle 

    with 
    a 
    gun 
    and 
    a 
    knife 

    If 
    you stay 
    long 
    enough 
    you 
    lose 




    your 

    life 

    Man 
    down 
    there 
    he 
    couldn't 
    be 
    lying 

    He 
    was sleeping 
    in 
    the street 
    and he 

    couldn't 
    keep from 
    crying 

    Said 
    he'd 
    been 
    there 
    for 

    twenty 
    one 
    years 

    Through 
    the bars 
    and 
    the brawls 

    and 
    the blues 
    and 
    the tears 

    Prop 
    up 
    the 
    front 
    the 
    back 
    falls 
    down 

    All 
    around 
    the canyons 
    of 
    l.a. 
    town 

    When 
    he 
    asked 
    me for 
    a 
    dollar 

    I looked 
    him 
    in 
    his 
    face 

    Downtown 
    l.a. 
    is 
    a 
    depressing 
    place 
    Outro 1





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