Hell Broke Luce Chords by Tom Waits

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_ _ _ _ I [C] had a good home but I left.
I had a good home but I left.
Right.
Yeah.
_ That big fuckin' bomb made me deaf.
Deaf.
_ _ _ A home beam mechanic put [A] his Kevlar on wrong.
I guarantee you'll meet up with a suicide bomb.
And hell, I'm gonna be dead.
Hell broke loose.
_ _ _ Hell broke [C] loose. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Big fuckin' ditches in the [A] middle of the road.
You pay a hundred dollars just for fillin' in the hole.
[C] Listen to the general every [Bm] goddamn word.
How many [C] ways can you polish up a turd?
And left, right, _ _ [E] _ [A] left, left, right, _ left, [C] right.
Hell _ broke loose. _ _ _
Hell broke loose.
_ [Eb] Hell broke loose. _
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_ _ _ [C] for makin' this _ mess.
_ God's that sorry us as peoples.
[Ab] For the God-damn [A] desks and hell broke loose.
_ _ _ Hell [Ab] broke [F] loose.
_ [C] had a wife, death.
_ _ What did you do before the war?
I was a chef.
I was a chef.
_ The guy whose name was Jeff.
Jeff. _ _ _ _
I lost my buddy and I vomited. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I come down from the mountain, [D] so I slept. _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] I had a good home, [C] but I left.
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[D] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
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Panced at the wind for a [N] joke. _ _
_ _ I panced right in with the dope.
_ _ Glanced at her shin, she said, nope. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
That's right. _ _ _ _ _
Nimrod, by Chris, have you any wool?
Get me another body bag, the body bag's full.
My face was scarce, scarce.
I miss my home, I miss my porch, porch.
Left, right, left.
_ _ _ When I go home in March, March. _
My stance was a chin full of soap.
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[C] That ram said, dinner with the pope.
[Eb] And left, right, left. _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ Calipers sold, I got it sewn, sprawled off.
[C] _ Sergio's developing a real bad cough.
_ Sergio's developing a real bad cough.
And hell _ broke _ loose. _ _ _
Hell broke loose.
Hell [Eb] broke loose.
[A] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] Boom went this heavyweight, and boom went Bowery. _
_ _ What the hell was it that the president said?
[Abm] Give them all a beautiful [A]
parade instead.
And left, _ [C] right, _ _ left.
_ [F] While I was over here, [D] I never got to vote.
[Gm] _ [Ab] I left [A] my arm in [B] my coat.
_ [A] Of arms she died and never wrote.
_ Except by the fire and air [C] that broke.
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Just before he died he had a talk.
_ [Ab] I'm home, and [A] I'm blind, and I'm broke.
_ _ [B] What [A] is next?
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