Tom Waits – A Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun (Ukulele)

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        Am 
Well it's raining it's pouring, you didn't bring a sweater 

  Am              D7/F#                E  F#7  Gm  G#m 
Nebraska'll never let you come back home 

Am 
Hollywood and Vine by the Thrifty Mart sign 

                  D7/F#          E  F#7  Gm  G#m 
any night I'll be willin' to bet 

          Am 
There's a young girl with sweet little dreams and pretty blue wishes 

              D/F#  E           Am 
standin' there just gettin' all wet 

              Am 
And there's a place off the drag called the Gilbert Hotel 

                             D7/F#                E F#7  Gm  G#m 
and there's a couple letters burned out in the sign 

         Am 
And it's better than a bus stop they do good business every time it rains

for little girls with nothing in their jeans

D7/F#      E          Am 
  but pretty blue wishes and sweet little jeans 

         Am 
And it's raining it's pouring, the old man is snoring

Now I lay me down to sleep I hear the sirens in the street All my dreams are made of chrome

  D7/F#          E    F#7  Gm  G#m 
I have no way to get back home 

    Am 
I'd rather die before I wake 

                   D7/F# 
like Marilyn Monroe 

              Am 
and you could throw my dreams out in the street 

            D7/F#  E            Am 
and let the rain   make 'em grow

(Solo)

        Am 
Now the night clerk he got a club foot

He's heard every hard luck story

           D7/F#             E  F#7   Gm  G#m 
at least a hundred times or more 

         Am 
He says: Check out time is 10 a.m.

and that's just what it means Go on up the stairs

                  D7/F#      E           Am 
with sweet little wishes and pretty blue dreams 

         Am                                        D7/F# 
And it's raining it's pouring and Hollywood's just fine 

Am 
Swindle a little girl out of her dreams 

        E      F#7    Gm   G#m 
another letter in the sign

Am Now never trust a scarecrow wearin' shades after dark

                           D7/F#
 be careful of that old bow tie he wears

It takes a sweet little bullet from a pretty blue gun

             D7/F#           E         Am 
to put those scarlet ribbons in your hair

(Solo)

         Am 
No, that ain't no cherry bomb 

                  D/F# 
4th of July's all done

Just some fool playin' that second line

         D7/F#       E           Am 
from the barrel of a pretty blue gun 

         Am 
No, that ain't no cherry bomb 

                  D/F# 
4th of July's all done

Just some fool playin' that second line

         D7/F#       E           Am 
from the barrel of a pretty blue gun