Chords for Skid Row (Downtown)

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_ _ _ _ _ A lung _ _ goes up and _ _ [Gm] you start a _ town.
_ _ _ _ [Dm] You put in your head, _ _ [Cm] _ _ _
[F] I'll have a _ _ [Bb] _ _ win.
_ _ Sing it, [Gm] y'all. _ _
_ Till it's _ five [Cm] p _ _ _ _ _ _ .m.
_ _ _ [F] _ [Cm] Then you [Bb]
go [F] downtown where the folks are broke.
[Dm] You go downtown [A] where your life's a joke.
[Eb] You go downtown where you buy a joke.
[Gm] Can you _ _ [C] go _ home [Bb] to Skid Row?
_ _ _ Home [Gm] to Skid Row.
_ [Fm] _ Yes, you [Bb]
go downtown where the cops don't [Dm] stop.
_ Downtown where the food is slap.
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_ Downtown where the hot head fuck [Gm] never stops.
_ _ [F] _ _ [Bb] Downtown _
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_ where the messengers never work.
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_ [E] _ _ [F] _ _ Downtown [Bb] _
_ _ where the guys are chips.
[Dm] _
Downtown where they rip your switch.
[Eb] _
Downtown where relationships are [Gm] no _ _ [Fm] good.
Down on [Bb]
Skid Row.
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_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _
_ All my life I've always [Eb] been poor.
I keep asking God what [Gm] I'm for.
[F] And he [Gm] tells me, gee, I'm [Dm] not [E] sure.
_ [Cm] Sweep [F] that floor, [Cm] kid.
Oh, _ _ I started life as [Gm] an orphan, [D] child of the street.
[Bb] Here on [Cm] Skid Row, _ _ he took me and gave [Gm] me shelter, a bed, [C] crust of bread, and a job.
[Bb] _
Treats me like [C] dirt and calls me a slob, [F] which I _ _ am. _
So I _ [Bb] live.
_ [F] _
_ [Bb] That's your home address.
You [Dm] live.
Downtown.
_ _ When your life's a mess, you live.
[Eb] Downtown. _ _
Where depression's just [G] status [Gm] quo.
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ On Skid [F] Row.
Someone show me a way to get out of [Dm] here.
Because I constantly pray I'll get out of here.
[Eb] _
Please won't somebody say I'll get out [F] of [Gm] here.
Someone give me my [F] shot or I'll [Bb] rot here.
_ [F] Show me how [Bb] and I will, I'll get out of here.
[Dm] I'll start climbing uphill and get out of [Eb] here. _
[Bb] Someone tell me I [Eb] still could get out of [Gm] here.
Someone tell [C] Lady Luck that I'm stuck [Bb] here.
[F] Gee, it sure would be swell to get [Bb]
out of [Dm] here.
I gotta farewell and get out of here.
_ [Bb] _ [Eb] Heaven and hell to get [F] out [Gm] of Skid Row.
I know I [C] don't know what to get out of Skid Row.
But a hell of a lot to get out of Skid Row.
[F] Someone tell me there's not a way out of Skid Row.
Unbelievably, I [Bb] gotta get out of Skid Row. _ _ _ _ _ _
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