Murder by Death – On The Dark Streets Below (Guitar)

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      Am           Dm
Slow down, little girl

                  G           Am
You've lost your way in this world

      Am             Dm
Slow down and start again

                  E            Am
You'll feel much better in the end
[Enter trumpets] Am
         Am
"Annie's always been a live one," says the matroness

     Am
She never cries, she never lets her sorrows get the best of her

     Dm
She makes a kind of music of the buttons popping off her dress

     E                                                    Am
She knows it's just the way it goes on the dark streets below.
[Trumpets] Am
 Am
Adele came from a decent town, scraped by for her first month's rent

 Am
Guessed with her brains she could find a job in management

     Dm
She showed promise in algebra but now her talent's spent

          E
Counting other people's dough on the dark... streets below!
[More trumpets] Am Dm Am E Am
   Dm                 Am
So get up kid, you're not licked yet!

  E
I never knew a time when you wouldn't take a bet

  E          Am           Dm
Slooooooooow down, little girl

        G            Am
You've lost your way in this world

      Am             Dm
Slow down and start again

        G               Am
You'll feel much better in the end

Am
August's from the old country, came over on a ship

       Am
It was like a floating oil drum, it barely made the trip

    Dm
She knew that she'd been screwed as soon as she pulled up to the spit

         E                                                       Am
Now she knows it's girls like her who compose the dark streets below

                E                                         Am   E
These folks got nowhere left to go but the dark streets below 

                    Am  E
The dark streets below

                    Am  E
The dark streets below

                    Am  E
The dark streets below

                    Am
The dark streets below!