God's Away on Business chords by Kronos Quartet, Tom Waits

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Intro 1

I'd sell

Verse 1
your heart to the junkman
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Baby, for a buck, for a buck
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D 
If you're looking for someone to
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pull you uut of that ditch
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D 
You're out of luck,
E 
you're out of luck
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Ship

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Verse 2

is sinking

The ship is sinking

There's

Verse 3
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E 
leak, there's a leak,
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in the boiler room
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The poor, the lame, the blind
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E 
Who are the ones that we
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Am 
kept in charge?
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Killers, thieves, and lawyers
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Verse 4
Am 
God's away,
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Am 
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God's away
Am 
E 
Am 
God's away on business
Business
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Am 
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God's away, God's away
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E 
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God's away on business
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Business

Verse 5
F 
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Digging up    the dead with
a shovel and a pick
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It's a job,  it's a job
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Bloody moon rising with a
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plague and a flood
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Join the mob, join the mob

Verse 6

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It's all over, it's all over,

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it's all over

Verse 7
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And there's a leak, there's a leak,
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in the boiler room
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The poor, the lame, the blind
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Who are the ones that we
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kept in charge?
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Killers, thieves, and lawyers
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F 
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God's away, God's
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away, God's away
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On Business
Business
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God's away, God's away
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On Business
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Business, ha

Interlude 1

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Verse 8
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Goddamn there's always
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such a big temptation
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To be good, to be good
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There's always free  ched
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dar in a mousetrap, baby
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It's a deal, it's a deal
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God's away, God's away,
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God's away
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On business
Business
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