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The Woman Downstairs easy guitar chords by
The Handsome Family
The Handsome Family

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Verse 1
Em
E
B
E
B
E
B
C

Chicago is where
D
G
D

the woman downstairs
A
B

Starved herself to death
Em
B
E

last summer
B
C
G
C

Her boyfriend Ted ate
D
G
D

hot dogs and wept
A
B
F#

With the gray rats out on
Em
E
Em

the fire escape
Verse 2
E
B
C
G

In a thrift store chair I
C
D
G
D

drank cases of beer
A
B

And dreamed of laying down
F#
E
Em

on the L tracks
B
C

The trains roared by under smoke-
D
G
D
Am

gray skies
A
B

Lake Michigan rose and fell like a bird
Em
Verse 3

C
D

And when the wind screamed
G

up Ashland Avenue
C
D
G

The corner bars were full by noon
C

And the old stew bums slid
D
G

ing down their stools
A
B

Ate boiled eggs and fed
Em

beer to the dogs
Verse 4
Em

C
D
G
Am
B
F#
Em

The woman

down
C
G
C
D
G
D

stairs lost all her hair
A
B
Em
E

And wore a beret in the laundry room
B
C
G

I borrowed her soap and
D
G
D
A

bought her a Coke
B
E
Em
E
Em

But she left it on a dryer
Verse 5
Em
C
D
G
D

She died in June weighing eighty two
Am
B

Her boyfriend went back
Em
E

to New York
Em
C

The cops wandered through
Em
D
G
D

her dusty rooms
Am
B

One of them stole her TV
Em
Verse 6

C
D

And when the wind screamed up
G

Ashland Av enue
C
D
G

The corner bars were full by noon
C

And the old stew bums slid
D
G

ing down their stools
A
B
Em

Ate boiled eggs and fed beer to the dogs
Outro 1
Em
C
D
G
C
D
G

C
D
G
D
G
A
B

Em
C
G
C
D
G
D
Am

B
F#
Em
C
D
G
D
Am

F#dim
B
Em
Em
D


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Chords
  • Em

  • E

  • B

    2
  • C

  • D

  • G

  • A

  • F#

    2
  • Am

  • F#dim

    4

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