Gun Street Girl chords by Tom Waits
Verse 1
Am
One, two, three
C
Am
Falling James in the Tahoe mud
Em
Stick around to tell us all a tale
Am
Well, he fell in love
with a Gun Street girl
And now he's dancing in the
Em
Am
Birmingham jail
Em
Dancing in the Birmingham jail
Am
Verse 2
He took a hundred dollars off
a slaughterhouse Joe
Brought a brand new
Em
Michigan twenty- gauge
Am
He got all liquored up on that
Em
road house corn
Am
Blew a hole in the hood of a yellow Corvette
C
A hole in the hood of a yel
Am
low Corvette
Verse 3
Em
Am
He bought a second- hand Nova
from a Cuban Chinese
And dyed his hair in the bathroom
Em
of a Texaco
Am
With a pawnshop radio, quarter past four
He left for Waukegan at
the slamming of the door
Left for Waukegan at the slamming
of the door
Verse 4
Am
I said John, John, he's long gone
Gone to Indiana, ain't never coming home
I said John, John, he's long gone
Gone to Indiana,
ain't never coming home
Em
He's sitting
Verse 5
Am
in a sycamore
in St. John's wood
Em
Soaking day- old bread in kerosene
Am
Well, he was blue as a robin's
egg and brown as a hog
He's staying out of circulation
till the dogs get tired
Verse 6
Out of circulation till the dogs get tired
Am
Shadow fixed the toilet
C
Am
Em
with an old trombone
Am
He never get up in the
morning on a Saturday
Em
E
Em
Am
Sitting by the Erie
with a bull- whipped dog
Telling everyone he saw,
"they went that- a- way, boys"
Telling everyone he saw,
"they went that- a- way"
Verse 7
Am
Now the rain's like gravel
on an old tin roof
And the Burlington Northern
Em
pulling out of the world
Am
Now a head full of bourbon and
Em
Am
a dream in the straw
And a Gun Street girl was the cause of it all
Verse 8
A Gun Street girl was the cause of it all
Am
Em
Am
Well, he's riding in the shadow
by the St. Joe ridge
Hearing the click- clack tapping
Em
of a blind man's cane
Am
He was pulling into Baker
on a New Year's Eve
One eye on a pistol and
the other on the door
One eye on a pistol and the
other on the door
Verse 9
Am
Miss Charlotte took her satchel
down to King Fish Row
Smuggled in a brand new pair
Em
Am
of alligator shoes
With her fireman's raincoat
and her long yellow hair
Well, they tied her to a tree
with a skinny millionaire
Em
Am
Tied her to a tree with a skinny millionaire
Verse 10
Am
I said John, John, he's long gone
Gone to Indiana, ain't never coming home
I said John, John, he's long gone
Gone to Indiana,
Verse 11
ain't never coming home
Am
Banging on the table with an old tin cup
Sing I'll never kiss a Gun
Street girl again
Never kiss a Gun Street girl again
I'll never kiss a Gun Street girl again
Verse 12
Am
I said John, John, he's long gone
Gone to Indiana, ain't never coming home
C
Am
I said John, John, he's long gone
Gone to Indiana,
Outro 1
ain't never coming home
Am
Am
Gun Street Girl
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