Hell Broke Luce Chords by Tom Waits

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[N] _ I had a good home but I left.
I had a good home but I left.
Right, [D] left.
That big fuckin' bomb made me deaf.
Deaf.
[B] _ [Bb] A home beam mechanic put [N] his Kevlar on wrong.
I guarantee you'll meet up with a suicide bomb.
Hell broke loose.
Hell broke loose.
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_ _ Big fuckin' ditches in the middle of the road.
[Dm] You pay a hundred dollars just [F] for filling in [Bb] the hole.
Listen to the general [N] every goddamn word.
How many ways can you polish up a turd?.
And left, right, left, [F] left, right, left, [C] right.
Hell broke loose.
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Hell broke loose.
Hell [Eb] broke loose.
[Bb] _ [G] Oh, is it I'm the only one responsible [F] for making this mess?.
[Ab] _ [F] Got the sorry [Ab] asses able to go to [N] the goddamn desk.
And hell [F] broke loose.
Hell [Ab] broke [F] loose.
Left, [C] right, left.
What did you do before the war?.
I was a chef.
I was a chef.
What was your name?.
It was Jeff.
Jeff.
_ I lost my body and I wept.
Wept.
I come down from the mess.
So I slept.
Slept.
[G] _ .
[Eb] I had a good [Fm] home but I left.
[C] Left.
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[Cm] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [C] _ _ .
_ _ _ [G] Pants did the [N] wind for a joke.
_ .
I branched right in with the dope.
Glanced at her shin, she said nope.
_ _ Left, right, left.
Nimrod, bad bitch, have you any wool?.
Get me another body bag, the body bag's full.
And my face was scorched, scorched.
I miss my home, I miss my porch.
March left, right, left.
_ Can I go home in March?.
March.
My stance was a chin full of soap.
That rancid [F] dinner with the [Abm] Pope.
[Ab] And left, [F] right, [Ab] left.
[N] _ .
_ Caliper shoulder got his thumbs thrown [C] off.
Sergio's developing a real bad cough.
Sergio's [F] developing a [C] real bad cough.
And hell broke loose.
_ Hell broke loose.
[Eb] Hell broke [F] loose.
[Bm] _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _ .
_ _ [Bb] Boom went his head away and boom went Valerie.
[N] Huh.
What the hell was it that [Ebm] the president said?.
Give them all [Gm] a beautiful parade instead.
And [Fm] left, right, [C] [Ab] left.
[N] While I was over here, old mother got the phone.
I left my arm in my coat.
A bomb she died and never wrote.
It's shot by the fire and they let go.
Such glory died he had a toast.
[Ab] Now I'm home.
[N] Dead and blind.
Dead and broke.
[F] [Ebm] What [N] is next?.
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