Lawless Avenues Chords by Jackson Browne

[D] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [Am] _
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_ [D] Papa hit him, mama [G] kissed him, made him [Am] go to catechism,
[D] _ with his sisters in their [Gm] black and white.
_ [A] _
_ [D] And all the time those cities [Gm] speak, teaching [Am] him another [D] kind of wisdom.
When to run, when [G] to go, _ [A] _
[A] _ [D] up at the playground after [G] school,
listening [B] to [Bm] tales of the prison system _ [A] _ [G] _ [A] and those [D] lawless avenues.
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_ [D] Down on a half-broken street, [A] _
_ [D] a child's footsteps repeat,
[A] _
_ [D] there's something there [G] searching [A] down those [D] lawless avenues.
[G] _ _ _ [A] _
[C#m] _ [D] Silent Joe went down so bad, [G] he was [Am] the strongest fighter the [D] avenues had.
Snapped in the chest, [G] he went down the swingy.
[Am] _
_ [D] Someone from some other [G] part of town, no [A] one even seen him coming [D] down.
Still out here, no [G] church bell ringing.
[A] _
[G] And in the pilot's night, the police lights beat [Bm] across the lots and the [G] yards,
[A] following those [D] lawless avenues.
_ _ _ [A] _ _ [D] Down on a half [G]-broken street, [A] _ _ [D] _ armies advance [G] and retreat.
[A] _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ Sergeant Patro, [A] from those lawless [D] avenues.
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_ [G] _ _ _ [A] _ [Dm] _ And when he told his sister [G] Rosa, ran away [Am] with a [D] surfer from Hermosa.
Man, they need [G] cuidadosa, [A] I mean that won't waste [D] unless Rosa.
Rosa blamed her after [G] she saw [A] every poor [D] guy who could have gotten close. _
[G] You _ _ [A] _ [D] _ _
gotta fight [G] for what you want in this life, [A] but before they shipped him [D] overseas.
Otra guerra sin [G] razón, otra [A] guerra sin [D] fin, si no no.
She was fighting to understand, [G] when they [A] shipped Manuel [D] Victor's body home.
She [Bm] heard with [A] one [G] more shot, that going [A] down lawless [G] avenues.
[D] _ _ [A] Hoy amigo, [G] tal igual como ayer, la lucha en el barrio no [D] cambia.
Nuestros hijos, son los que [G] han de crecer, por la ida y la calle viviendo entre _ [F] brazos y _ chingasos.
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[Am] _ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _
_ [D] Down on a half [G]-darkened street, [A] _
[D] fathers and sons [G] lie at your feet.
[A] _
_ [D] There's something that [G] turns them down, [A] those [D] lawless avenues.
_ [G] _ _ _ _
[C#m] _ [D] Down on [G] a half-darkened street.
[A] _
_ [D] Down on [G] a half-darkened street.
[A]
[D] Down _ on a half [G]-darkened street.
[A] Half _ [D] _ _ _ [G] darkened street.
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