The Handsome Family – Woman Downstairs (Guitar)
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Chords
[Intro]
Em Em
[Verse 1]
Em C D G Chicago is where the woman downstairs Am B7 Em Starved herself to death last summer Em C D G Her boyfriend Ted ate hotdogs and wept Am B7 Em With the grey rats out on the fire escape Em C D G In a thrift store chair I drank cases of beer Am B7 Em And dreamed of lying down on the L-tracks Em C D G The trains roared by under smoke grey skies Am B7 Em Lake Michigan rose and fell like a bird
[Chorus]
C D G And when the wind screamed up Ashland Avenue C D G The corner bars were full by noon C D G And the old stewbums sliding down their stools Am B7 Em Ate boiled eggs and fed beer to their dogs
[Instrumental Break]
Em C D G Am B7 Em
[Verse 2]
Em C D G The woman downstairs lost all her hair Am B7 Em And wore a beret in the laundry room Em C D G I borrowed her soap and bought her a coke Am B7 Em But she left it on the dryer Em C D G She died in June weighing eighty-two Am B7 Em Her boyfriend went back to New York Em C D G The cops wandered through her dusty rooms Am B7 Em One of them stole her TV
[Chorus]
C D G And when the wind screamed up Ashland Avenue C D G The corner bars were full by noon C D G And the old stewbums sliding down their stools Am B7 Em Ate boiled eggs and fed beer to their dogs
[Outro]
Em C D G C D G
C D G Am B7 Em
Em C D G Am B7 Em
Em C D G Am B7 Em