Key: E minor
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
C
D
G
The corner bars were full by noon
D
G
ing down their stools
A
B
Ate boiled eggs and fed
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
C
D
G
The corner bars were full by noon
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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