Key: A minor
Intro 1
C#m
B
C#m
C#5
C#m
B
C#m
C#5
C#m
Verse 1
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking about the government
B
C#m
The man in the trench coat
G#
C#5
C#m
Wants to get it paid off
B
C#m
C#5
C#m
C#5
E5
C#
F#
C#m
It's somethin' you did
God knows when
G#
C#m
C#5
But you're doing it again
C#m
G#
You better duck down the alleyway
C#m
C#5
Lookin' for a new friend
G#
D#
G#
The man in the coonskin cap
In the big pen
Interlude 1
But you only got ten
C#5
C#m
C#5
C#m
C#5
C#m
C#5
B
C#m
C#5
B
C#m
C#5
C#m
C#5
B
C#5
B
Verse 2
C#5
C#m
Face full of black soot
B
C#m
Talkin' that the heat put
Plants in the bed but
The phone's tapped anyway
C#5
C#m
C#5
B
Maggie says that many say
C#5
C#m
C#5
Orders from the D.A.
F#m
G#
C#5
C#m
D#
C#5
F#
B
C#5
Don't matter what you did
C#5
C#m
C#5
C#m
Don't try "No Doz"
Better stay away from those
Keep a clean nose
Watch the plain clothes
Interlude 2
To know which way the wind blows
C#5
C#m
B
C#m
D#
C#5
B
C#5
C#m
B
C#5
C#m
C#5
B
C#5
C#m
Verse 3
C#5
C#m
B
Hang around a ink well
B
C#m
C#5
Try hard, get barred
C#m
F#m
F#5
Get jailed, jump bail
C#5
G#
C#m
G#
Join the army, if you fail
Look out kid
C#m
C#5
You're gonna get hit
But users, cheaters
Six- time losers
Hang around the theaters
Girl by the whirlpool
Lookin' for a new fool
B
C#m
Don't follow leaders
C#5
Watch the parkin' meters
Verse 4
C#5
C#m
C#5
Ah get born, keep warm
B
C#5
Short pants, romance, learn to dance
Get dressed, get blessed
G#
B
C#m
Try to be a success
C#5
B
Please her, please him, buy gifts
C#m
C#5
Don't steal, don't lift
Twenty years of schoolin'
C#m
C#5
And they put you on the day
D#m
C#5
D#m
shift
They keep it all hid
C#5
C#m
C#5
Better jump down a man hole
B
Bbm
Try to avoid the scandals
A
G#
Don't want to be a bum
C#5
D#m
You bet ter chew gum
G#
C#5
The pump don't work
Outro 1
'Cause the vandals took the handles
C#5
B
C#5
C#5
C#
C#m
C#5
C#5
C#5
C#
C#
C#5
C#
C#5
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