Town With No Cheer chords by Tom Waits

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G#aug
C
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Esus4
Em
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Dm
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Intro 1

Well it's hotter 'n blazes

Verse 1
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F 
and all the long faces
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There'll be  no oasis for a dry
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Am 
local grazier
G#aug 
There'll be no refreshment
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F 
for a thirsty jackaroo
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C 
From Mel bourne to Adelaide on the
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C 
E 
overlander
Am 
With newfangled buffet cars
G#aug 
Am 
F 
and      faster locomotives
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C 
F 
The train stopped in Serviceton
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E 
less and less often

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Verse 2
Am 
No, there's nothing sadder than
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F 
a town with no cheer
Am 
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Vic Rail decided the canteen
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E 
was no longer necessary there
Am 
No spirits, no bilgewater
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and eighty dry locals
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C 
And the high noon sun beats a
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E 
hundred and four
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There's a hum mingbird trapped in a closed-
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E 
G#aug 
E 
down shoe store
G#aug 
This

Verse 3
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Am 
tiny Victorian rhubarb
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Kept the watering hole open for sixty- five
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C 
Am 
F 
Esus4 
E 
years
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Now it's boilin' in a miserable
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Em 
March twenty- first
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C 
Wrapped the hills  in the blanket of
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Esus4 
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Patterson's curse
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The train smokes down the xylophone,
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F 
there'll be no stopping here
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E 
All you can be  is thirsty in a town with no cheer
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C 

Interlude 1

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No Bourbon, no

Verse 4
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Branchwater, though the townspeople here
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Fought her Vic Rail decree tooth
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E 
Esus4 
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and nail
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Now it's boilin' in a miserable
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Em 
March twenty- first
Am 
Wrapped the hills in a blanket of Pat
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E 
Eaug 
terson's curse
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The train smokes down the xylophone,
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Esus4 
E 
there'll be no stopping here
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C 
F 
All ya can be is thirsty in a town with no cheer
Esus4 