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Swordfishtrombone easy guitar chords by 
Tom Waits
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Intro 1
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Am
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Dm
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Dm
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Dm
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Dm
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B
F
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Verse 1
Am
Well, he came
Dm
home from the war
E
With a party in his head
Am
And modified Brougham DeVille
And a pair of legs that opened
E
up like butterfly wings
Am
And a mad dog that wouldn't sit still
Dm
He went and took up with a Salva
Am
tion Army band girl
Dm
Am
Who played dirty water on a
swordfishtrombone
Dm
He went to sleep at the bottom
Am
of Tenkiller lake
B
And he said "gee,
F
E
but it's great to be home"
Am
Well, he came home from the war
E
with a party in his head
Am
And an idea for a fireworks display
And he knew that he'd be ready
E
with a stainless steel machete
Am
And a half a pint of Ballentine's each day
Dm
D
And he holed up in room above
Am
a hardware store
Dm
Am
Cryin' nothing there but Hollywood tears
Dm
He put a spell on some poor
Am
little Crutchfield girl
B
And stayed like that
for twenty-seven years
E
years
Am
Dm
He packed up all his expectations,
E
he lit out for California
Am
With a flyswatter banjo on his knee
Dm
Am
Dm
E
With a lucky tiger in his angel hair and
Benzedrine for getting there
Am
They found him in a eucalyptus tree
Dm
Am
Lieutenant got him a canary bird and skanked her
Dm
head with every word
Am
Chesterfielded moonbeams in a song
Dm
He got twenty years for lovin' her
Am
from some Oklahoma governor
B
Said "everything this
Dm
B
E
Doughboy does is wrong"
Am
Now some say he's doing
E
the obituary mambo
Now some say that he's hanging
Am
on the wall
F
Perhaps this yarn's the only thing
Dm
E
that holds this man together
Some say he was never
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here at all
Dm
And some say they saw him
down in Birmingham
Am
Dm
Sleeping in a
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Dm
boxcar going by
And if you think that you can
Am
Dm
tell a bigger tale
Am
B
E
I swear to God you'd have to tell
Outro 1
a lie
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Am
Dm
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Am
Dm
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Am
Dm
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