Purple Avenue chords by Tom Waits

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Absus4
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Intro 1

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Verse 1
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My slow down purple avenues
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To march around in April shoes
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Where the veins remind
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Of the summer times that I've
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left behind
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Money's gone for auld lang syne
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I spend on eastern stand
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ard time
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Whatever happened to my  roll
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September fell right through the hole
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All I've got is empty pockets now
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And why does August try so  hard
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To waste me on my own petard
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I've learned one thing
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from how we were
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That an  ounce of prevention's
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worth a   pound of cure
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The shadows fall, but I cannot thread
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The tenors of the things you said
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All that's left is  flesh an d bone
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Lights are on and no one's home
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All I've got is empty pockets
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Now,
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I spill myself another drink
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I   count the whiskers
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in       the sink
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The   orchestra is  blind
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But I've never been a wearying
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kind
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Subsequently and fur
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ther  more
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I'll sleep right here
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on the draining board
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I'll never    be paroled,
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I like to drink them while they're cold
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And all I've got   is empty buckets now