Chords for On the Bus Mall

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_ _ _ _ [C] In matching blue raincoats, our shoes were our [G] showboats.
We kicked around _ from _ _
_ _ [C] _ stairway to station.
We made a sensation with the gathered crowd.
_ _ _ _ _ [Em] And oh, what [C] a bargain!
We're two easy targets [G] for the old men at the off-tracks.
_ _ _ [C] Who paid in pullover and crumpled old dollars,
[G] which we squirreled away in [Em] our rat-trap hotel by [Am] the freeway. _ _ _
_ _ And we slept in Sundays.
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_ [C] Your parents were anxious.
Your cool was contagious [G] at the old school.
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You left without leaving a note for your grieving
[G] sweet mother, while your brother was so cruel.
_ [C] And here in the alleys, your spirits were [G] rallied.
As you learn quick to make a fast buck. _
_ [C] In bathrooms and ballrooms, on dumpsters and heirlooms,
we bit our tongues, [Em] sucked our lips into our lungs,
till we were [Am] falling. _ _ _ _ _
Such was [C] our _ _ calling. _
_ _ _ _ [Em] And here in [D] our hollow, _ we [Am] fused like a [C] family. _ _ _
_ [Em] But I will [D] not _ _ mourn. _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Em] So _ take off your [D] _ _
makeup [Am] and pocket your pills [C]
away.
_ _ _ [Am] We're kings among runaways.
[Cm] _ _ _ On [G] the bus mall, _ _ _ _ _ _ [Cm] we're down.
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_ _ _ On the [G] bus mall. _
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_ _ [C] Among all the urchins and old Chinese merchants [G] of the old town. _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] We reigned at the pool hall with one iron cue [G] ball.
And we never let the bastards get us down.
_ [C] And we laughed off the quick tricks, the old men with limp [G] dicks,
on the colonnades of the waterfront park. _
_ _ [C] As four in the morning came on cold and boring,
[G] we huddled close [Em] in the bus stop enclosure, _
[Am] _ enfolding and _ _ _
_ _ [C] slightly _ holding. _
_ _ _ _ [Em] But here _ in [D] our hollow, we [Am] fused like a [C] family. _ _
_ [Em] But I will [D] not _ mourn for [C] you. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] So _ take off [D] your makeup _ [Am] and pocket your pills away.
_ _ We're kings among [Cm] runaways.
_ _ On [G] the bus mall, _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Cm] we're down. _ _ _
_ On _ [G] the bus mall, _ _ _ _ _ _ we're down. _ _ _ _ _
On [G] the bus mall, _ _ _ _ _ [Cm] we're down.
_ _ _ _ _ _ On the [G] bus mall.
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Oh, [C] oh. _ _ _ _
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