Key: A minor
Intro 1
F#m
E
F#m
F#5
F#m
E
F#m
F#5
F#m
Verse 1
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking about the government
E
F#m
The man in the trench coat
C#
F#5
F#m
Wants to get it paid off
E
F#m
F#5
F#m
F#5
A5
F#
B
F#m
It's somethin' you did
God knows when
C#
F#m
F#5
But you're doing it again
F#m
C#
You better duck down the alleyway
F#m
F#5
Lookin' for a new friend
C#
G#
C#
The man in the coonskin cap
In the big pen
Interlude 1
But you only got ten
F#5
F#m
F#5
F#m
F#5
F#m
F#5
E
F#m
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E
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E
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E
Verse 2
F#5
F#m
Face full of black soot
E
F#m
Talkin' that the heat put
Plants in the bed but
The phone's tapped anyway
F#5
F#m
F#5
E
Maggie says that many say
F#5
F#m
F#5
Orders from the D.A.
Bm
C#
F#5
F#m
G#
F#5
B
E
F#5
Don't matter what you did
F#5
F#m
F#5
F#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
F#5
F#m
E
F#m
G#
F#5
E
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E
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Verse 3
F#5
F#m
E
Hang around a ink well
E
F#m
F#5
Try hard, get barred
F#m
Bm
B5
Get jailed, jump bail
F#5
C#
F#m
C#
Join the army, if you fail
Look out kid
F#m
F#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
E
F#m
Don't follow leaders
F#5
Watch the parkin' meters
Verse 4
F#5
F#m
F#5
Ah get born, keep warm
E
F#5
Short pants, romance, learn to dance
Get dressed, get blessed
C#
E
F#m
Try to be a success
F#5
E
Please her, please him, buy gifts
F#m
F#5
Don't steal, don't lift
Twenty years of schoolin'
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F#5
And they put you on the day
G#m
F#5
G#m
shift
They keep it all hid
F#5
F#m
F#5
Better jump down a man hole
E
D#m
Try to avoid the scandals
D
C#
Don't want to be a bum
F#5
G#m
You bet ter chew gum
C#
F#5
The pump don't work
Outro 1
'Cause the vandals took the handles
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E
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F#m
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