Chords for Skid Row (Downtown)

_ _ _ The alarm _ _ _ goes off at 7
[Gm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] You put in your 8 hours
[Cm] For the powers [F] that have always _ _ been
Sega [Am] Jack
[Gm] _ Till it's _ _ _
[Cm] _ 5pm _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ Then you [Bb] go downtown
Where the folks are broke
You [D] go [A] downtown
[Dm] Where your life's a joke
You [Eb] go [Bb] downtown
[Eb] When you buy your token [Gm] you die
_ _ [F] _ Home [Bb] to Skid [F] Row
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ _ [G] _ Yes [Bb] you go [F] downtown
Where [Bb] the cabs don't stop
[Dm] Downtown
[A] Where [D] the food is slop
[Eb] _ [Bb] Downtown
Where [Eb] the hotheads flop in the [Gm] _
[G] snow
_ [F] _ Down on Skid Row
Traitor [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ [Bb] to [Eb] a million [Gm] sharks
Up on [Dm] your meth and drugs
[Gm] _ _ _ _ [Cm]
Eating [Gm] all your lunches [Cm] at the _ _ _ [F] _
_ [Cm] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Eb] hut
Up [Bb] on _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Gm] your
Disinfect the rats
So why _ _ _ [Cm] _
_ should I put on a [Gm] purse
And buy my [Eb] property [F] when worse?
That's where you [Bb] go [F] Downtown
[Bb] Where the guys are trips
[Dm] Downtown
[A] _ [Dm] Where they rip your slips
[Eb] Downtown
[Bb] _ [Eb] Where relationships are [Gm] no _ _ _ [F] good
Down on [Bb] Skid Row
[F] Down on [Bb] Skid Row
_ _ [Gm] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ Poor
[F] _ _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ [G] All my life [Eb] I've always been poor
I keep asking God what I'm for
And he tells me gee I'm not [F] sure
_ _ [Cm] Sweep that [F] floor [Cm] kiddo
_ [G] _ I started life [Gm] as an orphan
A child of the street
Here on Skid [C] Row
_ [G] _ _ [Cm] He took me in gave [Gm] me shelter
A bed crust of [Gb] bread and a job
[Bb] _ Treats me like dirt
_ [C] Calls me a sloth which I [Eb] am
_ _ [F] _
_ So I [Bb] live _
_ _ _ That's your home address you [Dm] live _ Downtown
When your life's a mess you [Eb] live Downtown
_ Where _ depression's just [Gm] status quo
_ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ Someone show me a way to get outta [D] here
Cause I constantly pray I'll get outta [Eb] here
_ Please won't somebody say I'll get outta here
[Gm] _ _ Someone give me [F] my shot or I'll rot [Bb] here
Show me how and I will
I'll get outta here
[D] I'll start climbing up [Dm] hills and get outta here
[Eb] _ Someone tell me I still could get outta here
_ [Gm] Someone tell [F] Lady Walt that I'm stuck [Bb] here
[F] She sure would be swelled to get outta [D]
here
[A] To the gutter [Dm] farewell I'll get outta [Eb] here
I'm a pimp and I'm ready to get outta [Gm] Skid
I know I don't know what [C] to get outta Skid
[F] But I know I don't want to get outta Skid
People tell me there's not a way outta Skid
But I'm _ _ _ outta [Bb] Skid _ _ _ _
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