Chords for Tom Waits A Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun 1979

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_ [Em] This [Ab] is a story about Hollywood [E] Boulevard.
[A] _ _ And um, _ _ you know, it's all these young girls from the [F] Midwest still pick up a modern screen
magazine, get on a [N] Greyhound bus and come out looking for Clark [Am] Gable.
And um, _ _ _ _ you end up down on _ Wilcox Avenue _ and um, there's [Em] a pimp feeding ice cream to [E] a dog.
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That's uh, oh how the mighty have fallen.
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_ _ _ This is about any night.
When it's raining, _ [E] it's pouring.
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[A] _ You didn't bring a sweater, babe.
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[E] Now Nebraska will never let [C] you come [Abm] back home.
_ [A] _ _ [Bb] Go [B] down [A] on Hollywood [Gm] _ [D] _ [G] _
[E] by [Am] a drifting [G] mud sign. _
_ [Am] Any _ night, [D] without willing to [E] _ bathe, [Gbm] _ _ [Bb] _
[B] you'll see [Em] some young girl. _ _
_ [Ab] She's [D] got sweet little dreams [C] and pretty blue wishes.
[Ab] She'll be standing [G] there [D] at night, [Em] getting [Am] all wet. _ _ _
[G] You [E] know, there's this place you can [Cm] go off [G] a drive.
_ [Ab] They call [C] it the Gilbert [Am] Hotel. _
_ [G] _ [Abm] Well, there's a [N] couple of [C] letters [Gb] written out in [E] the _ [D] sand.
[Gm] _ _ [E] _ Well, you better [Cm] bust out, [A] baby.
[G] [Ab] They [D] do good [Dm] business every time it [G] rains [Ab] for all those little girls [Am] with [D] nothing in their
jeans but sweet [Ab] little wishes [Am] after the blood drains. _
[G] Any night, [Am] when it's raining, _ [G]
man, it's [A] pouring.
[Em] _ [E] _ [Am] _ [C] Oh man, he's a [Gbm] snoring.
[Em] _ [E] Now, [Dm] while laying down to [Em] sleep, [D] [A] I [D] hear the sirens _ in the [Em] streets.
[Ab] But all my [C] dreams are made of [G] chrome.
[D] I have no way [Ab] to get [Bb] back [Bm] home.
I'd rather [Am] die before I'm weak, [G] [D] just like a [Am] melon [D] for the road.
[Am] Why don't you [C] throw my dreams out in the street?
[Am] You can let [D] the rain [E] make them [Am] grow.
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[Em] _ [Am] While the night cries, [Cm] he got a club [Em] foot.
[Ab] He's heard every [C] hard luck [A] story, [Em] baby.
_ [Am] At least _ [C] a hundred times, [E] maybe more.
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When he hears [Am] the check out [Dm] time is 10 [Em] AM, [Abm] he'll have just [Am] what he needs. _
[Em] You [E] go [C] up the stairs [Gb] with your sweet little wishes after that [Ab] blood [Am] drain.
_ _ [Cm] [Em] Oh, but baby, [Ab] outside [Am] it's raining.
[C] And it's pouring.
[A] _ [Em] _ [E] _ [Am] _ Hollywood is fine.
_ [E] You gotta [Am] spend every girl out of her [C] dream.
Put another letter [E] in the [Bb] sand.
[Ab] That never [Am] draws a scarecrow [G] wearing [Am] shades [Em] out of the [Ab] dark.
Be [Am] careful of that old [D] bow tie he wears.
[Am] Only takes his sweet [C] little bullet from a pretty blue gun [A] to put [Gb] those scarlet ribbons [E] in your hair.
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No, that ain't [C] no cherry bomb, [A] baby.
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Fourth [Db] of [D] July is all done.
[Am] _ [Fm] Where's that fool [C] playing that second line [D] from a barrel of a pretty blue [C] gun?
_ No, that ain't [Am] no cherry bomb, baby.
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Fourth of July [D] was a long time [Am] ago.
Where's that fool playing that second [Cm] line [Gb] from a barrel [E] of a pretty blue [Am] gun? _ _ _ _ _
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