Shore Leave Chords by Tom Waits

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_ _ _ _ _ [G] I rolled _ _ down the National Stroll, _ _
[C] with a big fat paycheck strapped to my hip sack, _
[A] and a shore [Gm] leave wrist watch underneath my sleeve, _ _ and a Hong [Bb] Kong drizzle on Cuban heels.
[C] I [Bb] rolled down the gutter to the [G] blood bank, _ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] and I left all my papers on the Thai Kondorogo,
and I was in bad need of a shave. _ _
_ I [C] slomped at the corner on cold chow mein,
and shot billiards with a midget until the rain stopped.
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[G] I bought a [D] long sleeve shirt with horses on the front, and some gum and a [G] lighter and a knife,
[G] and a new deck of cards with girls on the back.
I [Gm] sat down and wrote a letter to my wife. _
_ _ I said baby, _ _ _ I'm [F] so far away [Cm] from home, _ _ [G] and I miss my baby [Gm] so, _
_ _ _ _ I can't make [D] it by myself, [F] _ [G] God love you so.
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And I was pacing myself, _ trying to make it [A] all last, [G] squeezing all the life out of a lousy [Gm] two day pass. _
[Cm] And I had a cold one at the Dragon, [G] some Filipino floor show,
and I talked baseball with a lieutenant over a [D] Singapore sling.
[C] And I wondered how the same moon [Bb] outside [G] over this Chinatown [Am] fair,
could look down on Illinois [G]
and find you there.
_ _ [Gm] So I love you baby. _
_ And I'm so far away from home, _ [Dm] I'm so far away from [Cm] home,
_ [G] and I miss my baby so, _ _ _ [Gm] I can't make it [D] by myself,
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God love you [G] so.
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