Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues chords by Nina Simone

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Verse 1
G 
C 
 (G major) When you're lost in Juarez  (C major) 
G 
And it's Easter time too  (G major) 
And your gravity fails
C 
And negativ (C major) ity don't
G 
pull you  (G major) through

Verse 2
C 
Don't  (C major) put on any airs
When you're down on rue
D 
morgue  (D major) av enue
They got some hungry women there
C 
D 
And  (C major) man, they  (D major) really make
G 
a mess  (G major) out of you

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Verse 3

If you see Saint Annie

Tell her thanks a lot

I cannot move

And my fingers are all in a knot

Verse 4

And I haven't got the strength

To get up and take another shot

And my best friend the doctor

Won't even say what it is I've got

Verse 5
G 
 (G major) 
C 
Sweet Melinda  (C major) 
G 
The peasants call her  (G major) the
goddess of gloom
She speaks good English
C 
G 
 (C major) And she invites  (G major) you up into her room

Verse 6

And you're so kind

And careful not to go to her too soon

And then she takes your voice

And leaves you howling at the moon

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Verse 7
G 
C 
Up  (G major) on project hill  (C major) 
G 
It's either  (G major) fortune or fame
You can take one or the other
C 
 (C major) Though neither of them
G 
are to be  (G major) what they claim

Verse 8
C 
And  (C major) If you're looking to get silly
You'd better go back from
D 
where  (D major) you came
Because the cops don't need you
C 
D 
G 
And  (C major) man,  (D major) they expect  (G major) the same

Verse 9
G 
 (G major) 
C 
All the authorities  (C major) 
G 
They just stand  (G major) around and boast
How they blackmailed
the sergeant- at- arms
C 
G 
 (C major) Into leaving his  (G major) post

Verse 10

And picking up my brother Carl

who just arrived here from the coast

Who looked so fine at first

But left looking like a ghost

Verse 11

Verse 12
Well, that's it folks, that's it
G 
 (G major) 
C 
Well I started out on burgundy  (C major) 
G 
But soon  (G major) hit the harder stuff
Everybody said they'd
C 
stand  (C major) behind me
G 
When the game  (G major) got rough

Verse 13
C 
Ah,  (C major) but the joke was on me
D 
There was no- one there even  (D major) to bluff
I'm going back to New York City
C 
D 
G 
 (C major) I do be (D major) lieve I've had  (G major) enough