Top of the hill chords by Tom Waits

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Verse 1

I'm gonna get me on

F#m

the ride up

I'm gonna get

Can I have a little more on my voice?

Verse 2

Get me on the ride up

I'm on the top of the hill

I'm only goin' to the top of the hill

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Verse 3

New corn yellow and slaughterhouse red

The birds keep singing baby

after you're dead

F#m

I'm gonna miss you plenty

F#m

big old world

With our abalone earrings

and your mother of pearl

F#m

Stop and get me on the

Verse 4
E 
B 
ride up
E 
B 
E 
Stop and get me on the ride up
B 
Em 
Stop and get me on the ride up
B 
I'm only goin' to the top of the hill
C# 
B 
F#m 
B 
I'm only goin' to the top of the hill

Verse 5
Em 
E 
B 
F#m 
B 
I need your moon to
Em 
B 
F#m 
be the sky against
E 
Em 
Don't get your trouser button
E 
B 
stuck on the fence
Diego red and bedlam money are fine
G 
Why don't you come up here
Em 
B 
and see me sometime

Verse 6
B 
Stop and get me on the ride up
F#m 
E 
B 
Stop and get   me on the ride up
Stop and get me on the ride up
F#m 
Em 
I'm only  goin' to the top of the hill
B 
I'm only goin'
F#m 
E 
I'm only goin'
B 
Em 
I'm only goin' to the top
E 
Em 
E 
B 
of the hill

Verse 7
F#m 
There's very little leeway
B 
E 
I seen a mattress on the freeway
B 
F#m 
E 
B 
The moon rises over  Dog Street
E 
B 
E 
Em 
Jefferson said not every thing's reet
B 
Have all the lights burned
F#m 
out on heaven again
B 
I'll never roll the number 7 again
E 
I'm made of bread and I'm on

Verse 8

an ocean of wine

I hear all the birdies on the phone just fine

Verse 9
Em 
E 
B 
Stop and get me on the ride up
Stop and get me on the ride up
G 
Em 
Stop and get me on the ride up
B 
I'm only goin'
F#m 
B 
I'm only  goin'
E 
B 
Em 
I'm only goin' to the top of
E 
B 
E 
Em 
E 
B 
the hill
Em 
B 

Verse 10
E 
Em 
B 
Black joke and the bean soup
E 
Big sky and the Ford Coupe
G 
Em 
E 
F#m 
B 
Old maid and the dry bones
E 
Em 
A red Rover an  d the Skinny
G 
Bones Jones
B 
Em 
47 mules to pull this train
B 
G 
We're getting married in
B 
F#m 
the pouring rain
E 
Em 
You need your differen
G 
Em 
G 
tial and plenty of oil
B 
You load the wagon till the
G 
B 
end of the world

Verse 11
B 
E 
Stop and get me on the ride up
F#m 
B 
E 
B 
Stop and get   me on the ride up
E 
Stop and get me on the
Em 
E 
Em 
ride up
E 
B 
I'm only goin'
I'm only goin'
Em 
E 
Em 
E 
I'm only goin' to the top
F#m 
B 
Em 
B 
of the hill
F#m 
B 
E 
I'm only goin' to the
B 
C# 
B 
top of the hill

Verse 12
F#m 
G 
What's your throttle made of,
B 
Em 
is it money or  bone
G 
B 
Don't you doddle or you'll
G 
B 
never get home
G 
Em 
B 
E 
Em 
B 
Opium, fireworks, vodka and meat
G#m 
Em 
B 
E 
Scoot over and save me a seat

Verse 13
E 
Stop and get me on the ride up
B 
A 
B 
Stop and get me on the ride up
E 
B 
E 
Stop and get me on the ride up
B 
I'm only goin'
I'm only goin'
Em 
B 
E 
B 
D 
B 
F#m 
C 
I'm only goin' to the top of the hill

Interlude 1

F#m

Verse 14
B 
G 
F#m 
G 
If I had it all to do all over again
B 
I'd try to rise above the
G 
B 
laws of man
G#m 
E 
Why don'  cha gimme
B 
E 
B 
'nother sip of your cup
Turn a Rolls Royce into a Chicken Coup

Verse 15
C# 
B 
Stop and get me on the ride up
E 
B 
E 
C# 
Stop and get me on the ride up
E 
Stop and get me on the ride up
B 
I'm only goin'
E 
I'm only goin'
F#m 
E 
I'm only goin' to the top   of the hill