Chords for Dave Van Ronk performs "Losers"

_ I showed up in Greenwich Village _ probably around 1954. _ _ _
_ [A#] _ _ _ _ _ _
Not _ _ _ _ _ that it was any great _ _ _ venture _ for me.
I lived in Queens and _ it was just a question of taking the subway. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
By 1954 and 1955 _ _ _ I was living in the village _ _ more or less.
_ _ _ [F#] That is to say I didn't have a place of my own but I was [D#m] crashing on floors and that sort of thing.
[A#] _ _ I had a share in a loft on the Bowery along with a bunch of other people my own age.
_ _ And that sort of thing. _ _ _ _
My _ _ initial plan _ _ was to _ _ _ be a jazz musician.
_ _ To that purpose I had learned something about playing rhythm guitar. _
_ _ _ _ _ I even picked up a banjo for a while because I was playing trad jazz.
_ [F] A lot of the people [D#] I worked with insisted on it being [A#] a tenor banjo for the sake of authenticity.
_ _ _ _ _ [G]
I just caught [B] the tail end of the traditional jazz revival.
I was just in time to be too late as the song says.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
So for two or three years while I was knocking around the village and _ wherever I could find a couch or a floor
_ I was also playing with pick up _ groups. _ _ _ _
One, actually two _ more or less stable groups.
_ _ And playing these old _ _ _ jazz chestnuts things like at [A#] the jazz band ball. _ _ _
_ Fidgety feet or things like that.
_ And I knew all those changes.
_ _ _ [B] _ I knew the chord changes to all these _ _ _ _ traditional jazz pieces.
And it really gave me an enormous _ leg up [A#] _ _ _
_ when I started to get involved in what _ _ is generally called folk music.
Although I [E] never thought of what I [A#] did as folk [E] music and I never [B] thought of myself as a blues singer either. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
So I mean the joke _ [A#] around _ _ in the _ early 60s was I was the only folk singer _ in New York who knew how to play a diminished chord. _ _
_ _ [E] And it's not _ quite true but _ _ [B] it sort of _ _ _ _ _ exemplifies what did in actual fact set me apart from the other people who were playing around at the time.
[Em] _ _ [D] _ [F#m] _ [Em] _
[B] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [C#] _
_ [B] _ _ [Em] _ _ [B] _ _ [Em] _
_ [A] _ _ _ [C] _ [B] _ _ [Em] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ I got took for my [F#] hooses.
[B] _ [Em] That shark got [G] crowned now he's [F#m] grown been [Am] pounded and he's just [B] another loser [Em] like me.
[D] _ _ [F#] _ _ [B] _ _ [Em] _
_ [D] _ _ [Am] _ [B] _ _ _ [Em]
See that kid he's [Am] sitting back of the bar [C] picking up a storm [F#] on a [B] modern guitar.
[Em] That poor [F#] fool [Em] thinks he's gonna be a star but he's [B] just another loser [Em] like me.
_ _ _ [F#m]
[Em] Losers, _ losers, _ some are raggers, [F#] some are [B] bluesers, [Em] making [G] disco sounds in a ho-jo [A] [C] lounge with a [B] bunch of other [Em] losers like [D] me.
_ [C] _ _ [B] _ _
[Em] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ [B] _ _
[Em] Love has busted [Am] up this cat for sure.
[Em] He's crying like a baby in his [B] baby's door.
[Em] That poor fool don't know what he's crying [A] for.
[B] He's just another loser [Em] like me.
_ [G] _ _
_ [Em] Losers, losers, I can't say no to [B] cruisers.
[Em] When she says when he'll be back, can't add, he's [B] just another [Em] loser like me.
[D] _ [Am] _ _ [B] _ _ [Em] _
_ [D] _ _ [F#] _ _ [B] _ _ [Em] _
_ [D] _ _ [Em] _ [B] _ _ [Em] There's a hobo up in heaven on [Am] the golden street and [Em] he'll panhandle every [C#] angel [D#] that he'll meet.
[B] He'd hawk his [Em] harp for some [A] sneaky people [Em] but he's [B] just another [Em] loser like me.
_ _ Losers, _ losers, _ _ some are dopers and [F#] some are [B] boozers.
[Em] All the musketele is down [A] in hell and [Em] he's just another loser like me.
[D] _ [C] _ _ [B] _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _
_ [C] _ _ [B] _ [Em] When God appeared [Am] to Saint John Wayne [Em] he told him, Duke, I'm [D#] coming again.
[E] Life [F#] is [Em] just a wagon [A] train [B] and I'm glad you're not [Em] a loser like me.
_ _ [G] _ Losers, [Em] _
losers, are ten-gallon [B] boozers.
[Em] From Jankos Cantor, the [A] full-of-brush [B] man, they're just a bunch of [Em] losers like me. _
Thank you.
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A#m] _