Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues chords by Ramblin' Jack Elliott
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Intro 1
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Verse 1
When you're (G major) lost in the rain
in Juarez (C major) when it's Easter time, too (G major)
And your gravity fails and negat (C major) ivity
don't pull you through (G major)
Don't (C major) put on any airs when you're
down on Rue Morgue Av (G major) enue
They got some (D major) hungry women there and
they really (B minor) make a (D major) mess outta you
(G major)
Verse 2
Now, if you see Saint Annie,
(C major) please tell her thanks a lot (G major) (D major)
(G major) I cannot move, my (C major) fingers are all in a knot (G major)
I (C major) don't have the strength to get
up and take another shot (G major)
And my (D major) best friend, my doctor,
won't even say what it is I've got
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Verse 3
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Sweet Melinda, the (C major) peasants call
her the goddess of gloom (G major)
She speaks good English and she in
(C major) vites you up into (D major) her room (G major)
And (C major) you're so kind and careful
not to go to her (D major) too soon (G major)
And she takes (D major) your voice and leaves
you howling (G major) at the moon (D major)
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Verse 4
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Up on Housing Project Hill,
it's (C major) either fortune or fame (G major) (D major) (G major)
You must pick one or the other,
though neither (C major) of them are to be what they (G major) claim
If you're (C major) lookin' to get silly,
you better go back to from where you came (G major)
Because the cops (D major) don't need you, and man,
Interlude 1
they expect the same
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Verse 5
Now, (G major) all the authorities,
(D major) (C major) they just stand around and boast (D major) (G major) (D major) (G major)
(D major) How they (G major) blackmailed the sergeant-
(D major) at- arm (C major) s into leaving his post (D major) (G major) (D major) (G major)
(C major) And picking up Angel,
who just arrived here from the coast (D major) (G major)
Who (D major) looked so fine at first but left
looking just (C major) like (D major) a ghost
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Verse 6
(G major)
I started out on burgundy but soon (C major) hit
the harder stuff (D major) (G major) (D major) (G major)
Everybody said they'd stand be (D major) hind
(C major) me when the game (D major) got rough (G major) (D major) (G major)
But the joke (C major) was on me,
there was nobody even there to (D major) (G major) bluff (D major) (G major)
I'm going (D major) back to New York City,
Outro 1
I do believe I've had enough
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Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
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