Chords for 6) Bowery Blues - Jack Kerouac Jazz and Prose - Beat Poetry Vol 3

_ _ The Bowery Blues
[Gb] _
_ _ _ [Gbm] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ Cooper Union [D] Cafeteria _ _
Late cold March afternoon _ [A]
the street Third Avenue [Cm] is cobbled [Gm] _
[G] cold
desolate with trolley tracks
[B] _
_ _ [Ebm] Some guy on the [Em] corner is waving his hand down [Eb] knowing somebody [Ebm] emphatically
[A] _
_ Not of [Em] sight behind a [A] black and white pillar
_ cold [Eb] _ clowns in the moment [A]
horror of the [Eb] world
_ _ _ [Em] Puerto Rican [Eb] kid with a green stick [D] stooping to bat the sidewalk for changing his mind and halting on
_ _ _ [Bb] two new [B] small trucks parked
[Db] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
The withery gray rose stone [G] building across the street with [F] its rhyme heights in the [B] quiet winter sky
_ _ [Em] Inside are quiet workers [Ab] by neon and [Gm] tablatures
_ [G] practicing [A]
fanning lessons [D] with the murderous Marlboro a
_ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ [D] yacking blonde with awful wide smile [Dbm] is _
[Gbm] Macking her [A] mouth lip talk to an old body [Am] shot by Papa on the [D] sidewalk
_ [Bm]
the tense [G] quickness of her hard-working [Ab] words
_ [Abm] _ _ Meanwhile [Am] a funny bum with no sense [Ab] tries to panhandle [Gm] them [Gb] and is waved away [G] stumbling
He doesn't care about [Bm] society women embarrassed with [E] paper bags on [Em] sidewalks
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [G] Unutterably sad the [Ab] broken [Bb] winter shattered [D]
[Em] face of a [G] man passing in the bleak ripple
[Bbm] _
_ [Bm] _ Followed by a Russian [Bb] boxer with an expression of [D] Baltic lostness
_ [Bb] _ _ something grim [A] and Slavic and so helplessly [Em] beyond my
Conditional [E] Ken or ability [Em] to evaluate and [Abm] believe that I [Cm] shudder [B] as at the touch of [Em] cold stone to think of them
The second [G] old awfulness of [Ab] it _ [E]
[B] slaps [E] a wood wall [A] in an old [Db]
brewery [D] truck _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] for I [Fm] prophesy that _
_ [Gb] The night will be bright _
With the gold [Ab] of old _ _ in [Bbm] the in
_ _ [C]
within _ _ _ _ _ _
Shin McIntory oh [Am] with no money no bets [D] no health
_ [G] Falls on by pawing his inside coat.
[Gm] No hope of ever seeing Miami again since he lost his [E] pickles in Orchard Street
_ [Gb]
And his father stoople fettered him the hospitals of grave [E] leak bone drying in the moon [E] that modifies his [A] coat and words sing
What mind [D] brings? _
Bleeding bloody [A] semen of Indian [D] England _ battering and coat for Third [Bb] Avenue
_ [Ab] No sense [A] in their brows strictly blind sock [Bbm] blood of a [Gb] big lip sad
[Gm] Adventurers far from the pipe of [Eb] Liverpool the bean of [Em] bone bottle lithy brown
_ far hung [Ab] unseen [Am] top tippers of ocean wave
[Em] _ God [A] bless and sing [G] for them as I cannot
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