Chords for Lou Rawls - Dead End Street

[D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [Am] _ _
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I was [Am] born in a city they call the Windy City.
[D] _ _
Now they call it the [Am] Windy City
because of the hawk, [G] and the hawk, that's the [Ab] wind.
[Am] Oh, and it's mean in the
wintertime.
_ [G] I happen to have lived on [Ab] a street that was [Am] a dead-end street.
_ [D] I lived right at the end of the [G] block where there was [Ab] nothing to [D] stop the wind [Am] and elements
keepin' from blowin' right into my [D] pad.
I mean, really, sockin' it to us.
_ [Am] You see, in
Chicago in [G] the winter when the boilers burst and the [Ab] heat's all [Am] gone, _ you have to
get [D] fully dressed to go to [A] bed.
[Am] If you don't want a freezer in your sleep, [Ab] gotta put on
everything but my goulashes, [Am] cause they had buckles on them.
See, my grandma didn't play that.
[D] _ [Gb]
[G] But then I was [Ab] fortunate.
[Am] As soon as I was big enough to get a [D] job, save enough
money to get me [G] a ticket, [Ab] I [Am] caught the first thing smokin'.
Got my [Bm] hat split. _
[G] _ [Ab] _ [D] _ [Am] After getting myself [G] together, I thought I'd go back to Chicago, [D] check it out, you
know.
[Am] Try to convince my [G] relatives and friends that I left there to leave.
[Ab] _ [Am] They
don't want to leave.
They said they want to stay in [D] Chicago, Big Windy.
[A] I said, well,
you got it.
_ [D] If they can keep the thought out of my mind, I'm gonna [Am] keep my feet out
of the city limits certain months of the year.
I don't even [D] want to change planes in
Chicago.
_ [Am] Cause in Chicago, the Hulk not [D] only socks it to you, he socks it [Am] through you.
_ [D] Like a giant razor [G] blade blowing [Am] down the street on some of them windy days.
[D] _ _
Well, [Am] _ they [Dm] said this [Am] is a big, big town.
[Dm] _ [Am] I lived [Dm] in the [Am] poorest part.
_ [Dm] _ [Am] _ I was [Dm] raised [Am] on a dead end [Dm] street.
[Am] In a city without [Dm] a [Am] heart.
I _ _ learned [Dm] to fight [Am] before I was [Dm] six.
[Am] The only way that [Dm] I could [Am] get along.
_ [Dm] _ [Am] But when you're [Dm] raised [Am] on a dead end [Dm] street, [Am] you have got to be [Dm] tough and strong.
[Am] _ Now all the guys that over getting in trouble, that's how [Ab] it's always [Am] been.
When [N] the odds are all [Dm] against you, [Am] how can you [Dm] win?
[Am] Yeah.
Yeah. _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ Uh-huh.
[Am] Yeah.
_ _ [D] _ _ Well, [Am] I'm gonna push my way on out [Dm] of here.
[Am] _
Even though [Dm] I [Am] cannot tell you.
[Dm] I'm [Am] _ _
[Dm] gonna get [Am] off of this dead end [Dm] street.
[Am] _
No, [Dm] I'll never go back [Am] to live again.
Oh no.
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_ [D] _ _ _ _ [Am] No, no, no.
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I'll never [Dm] go [Am] _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ back to live on the dead end streets no more.
No, no, no, no. _
[D] _ _ _ _ [E] Cause I'm gonna get me [Am] a job.
_ _ [D] _ _ [G] [Am] Save all my dough.
_ [D] _ _ [G] [Ab] Get [Am] all the way from here.
_ [Gb] And I won't [G] come back [Ab] to live [Am] here no more, no more, no [D] more.
[G] Cause [Ab] I'm [Am]
tired _ [D] of this dead [Ab] end street.
[Am] I'm gonna get away from here.
[D] _ _ Never, [Am] never, never.
_ [D] _ Never gonna be [Am] back to live here no [D] more.
_ Cause I'm tired of [Bm] this [E] dead end street. _ _ _
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