Swordfishtrombone chords by
Tom Waits

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Intro 1
E E 
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Am Am 
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E E 
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Dm Dm 
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E E 
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Am Am 
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Dm Dm 
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Dm Dm 
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Dm Dm 
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B B 2
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E E 
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Verse 1
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Well, he came
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home from the war
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With a party in his head
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And modified Brougham DeVille
And a pair of legs that opened
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up like butterfly wings
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And a mad dog that wouldn't sit still
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He went and took up with a Salva
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tion Army band girl
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Who played dirty water on a
swordfishtrombone
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He went to sleep at the bottom
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of  Tenkiller lake
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And he said "gee,
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but it's great to be home"
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Well, he came home from the war
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with a party in his head
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And an idea for a fireworks display
And he knew that he'd be ready
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with a stainless steel machete
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And a half a pint of Ballentine's each day
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D D 
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And he holed up in room above
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a hardware store
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Cryin' nothing there but Hollywood tears
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He  put a spell on some poor
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little Crutchfield girl
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And stayed like that
for twenty-seven years
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years
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He packed up all his expectations,
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he lit out for California
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With a flyswatter banjo on his knee
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E E 
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With a lucky tiger in  his angel hair and
Benzedrine for getting there
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They found him in a eucalyptus tree
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Lieutenant got him a canary bird and skanked her
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head with every word
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Chesterfielded moonbeams in a song
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He  got twenty years for lovin' her
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from some Oklahoma governor
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Said "everything this
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E E 
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Doughboy does is wrong"
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Now some say he's doing
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the obituary mambo
Now some say that he's hanging
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on the wall
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Perhaps this yarn's the only thing
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E E 
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that holds this man together
Some say he was never
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here at all
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And some say they saw him
down in Birmingham
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Dm Dm 
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Sleeping in a
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Dm Dm 
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boxcar going by
And if you think that you can
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Dm Dm 
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tell a bigger tale
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B B 2
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I swear to God you'd have to tell

Outro 1

a lie

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