Downtown L.A. chords by J.J. Cale
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Downtown l.a. is a de pressing place
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You can see young men with
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deep lines in their face
They could all be something
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if somebody cared
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But nobody knows they're
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even down there
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Old woman walking with
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a sack on her back
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Picking up the garbage
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people put out back
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Men down there trying to walk the line
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Trading their soul for a bottle of wine
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In the inner city it ain't no good
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It's a long, long way from hollywood
Bad kind of people got a
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hold of the street
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They got something that
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the poor people need
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At two in the morning they bust your head
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Fat chance walking you'll
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end up dead
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It' the law of the jungle
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with a gun and a knife
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If you stay long enough you lose
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your
life
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Man down there he couldn't be lying
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He was sleeping in the street and he
couldn't keep from crying
Said he'd been there for
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twenty one years
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Through the bars and the brawls
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and the blues and the tears
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Prop up the front the back falls down
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All around the canyons of l.a. town
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When he asked me for a dollar
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I looked him in his face
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Downtown l.a. is a depressing place
Outro 1
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Downtown L.A.
J.J. Cale
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