Chords for Jonathan Richman - Rooming House on Venice Beach

_ _ _ _ [E] _ One, two, one, two, three.
Room in house on Venice Beach.
Wow, wow.
Room in house on Venice Beach.
[Em] Wow, wow.
There was a room in a house on Venice Beach.
_ Nice and cheap.
A radiator and a sagging bed
on which to sleep.
[A] I didn't like it.
Who would want my cheap guitar
[E] and that t-shirt and those paper bags?
Nah, nah.
[B] Oh, the ancient world [A] was in my reach.
[Em] From my room in a house [B] on Venice Beach.
[E] It was a rough, rough, rough
with [C#] ancient, rustic, [Em] hippie stuff.
It was a cheap, cheap, cheap.
Nowadays I hear that the rents [A] are steep.
It was an eerie, eerie, eerie
_ followers of Watson Leary.
And you [Em] could walk, walk, walk
to Marina Del Rey by the dock.
Oh, [B] the ancient world [A] was in my reach.
[E] From my room in a house [B] on Venice Beach.
[E] Room in a house on Venice [Em] Beach.
Wow, wow.
Room in a house on Venice Beach.
Wow, wow, [A] wow, wow, wow, wow.
[Em] Room in a house on Venice Beach.
Wow, wow, [B] _ [A] wow, wow, [Em] wow.
_ [B] _ [E] It was a room in a [Em] house on Venice Beach.
About half a block to the ancient sea
which I could reach with half a walk.
[A] Oh, the ancient weird guy in his toga,
staff in hand.
[Em] Oh, the ancient bearded guy doing yoga
on the sand.
[B] Oh, the ancient [A] world was in my reach.
[E] From my room in a [B] house on Venice Beach.
[E] It was a cheap, cheap, cheap.
Nowadays I hear that the rents are steep.
It was a rough, rough, rough
with ancient rustic hippie stuff.
[A] It was a wild, wild, wild.
Oh, you're never gonna call it mild.
[E] Oh, hip, hip.
I could move and not make a second trip.
[B] The ancient world [A] was in my reach.
[E] From my room in a house [B] on Venice Beach.
Let's [Em] go. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
Wow, wow, wow, [B] wow. _ _
[Em] _ _ [B] It was a room in a house on Venice Beach.
All screwed up.
Half a block from the ancient drunk guys
[Em] passing a cup.
[A] Half a block from the bearded queer guys singing flat.
_ [Em] Half a block from the weird old weird guys
passing a hat.
[B] And the ancient [A] world was in my reach.
[Em] From my room in a house on Venice Beach.
Room in a [A] house on Venice [Em] Beach.
Wow, wow.
Room in a house on Venice Beach.
Wow, wow.
[B] Wow, _ wow.
Wow, wow.
[E] Room in a house on Venice [A] Beach.
[E] Wow, wow.
[F#] Oh, the ancient [B] world was in my reach.
[E] From my room in a [B] house on Venice Beach.
It was a room in a house on Venice Beach.
Yeah, where I was.
Half a block.
I love that [Em] place.
Just because.
[A] Well, I didn't want it.
Who would want my bag of crap?
[Em] So I never locked the old screen door.
I just let it flap.
[B] Oh, the ancient world was in my [E] reach.
From my room in a house on Venice Beach.
It was a rough, rough, rough.
With ancient, rustic, hippie stuff.
It was eerie, eerie, eerie.
_ [A] Followers of Watson Leary.
It was a wild [Bm] and free.
[Em] That [A] appealed to me.
It was a hip, a hip, [Em] a hip.
I could move and not make a second [B] trip.
The [A] ancient world was in [Em] my reach.
From my room in a house on Venice Beach.
[B] Room in a [D] house on Venice Beach.
[B] Wah, [F#] wah, wah. _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
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