Frank's Wild Years chords by Tom Waits
Verse 1
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Well,
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Frank settled down in the Valley
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And he hung his wild years on a nail
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that he drove through his wife's forehead
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He sold used office fur niture out
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there on San Fernando Road
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And assumed a thirty thousand dollar loan
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at fifteen and a quarter percent
And put a down payment on a
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little two bedroom place
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His wife was a spent piece
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of used jet trash
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Made good bloody Marys,
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kept her mouth shut most of the time
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Had a little Chihuahua
named Carlos
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That had some kind of skin disease
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and was totally blind
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They had a thoroughly mod ern kitchen,
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self- cleaning oven, the whole bit
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Frank drove a little sedan,
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yhey were so happy
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One night Frank was on his way home from work,
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stopped at the liquor store
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Picked up a couple of Mick
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ey's Big Mouths
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Drank 'em in the car on his way
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to the Shell station
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Got a gallon of gas in a can
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Drove home, doused everything in the house,
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torched it
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Parked across the street laughing,
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watching it burn
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All Halloween- orange and chimney- red
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Then Frank put on a top
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forty station
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Got on the Hollywood Freeway,
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headed north
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Never could stand that dog
Outro 1
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