Tom Waits – Burma Shave (Guitar)

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PJs Guitar Chords and Lyrics - BURMA SHAVE TOM WAITS Guitar Song Chords | Guitar Chords Home Page > Tom Waits Guitar Songs | [Verse 1]
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Licorice tattoo, turned a gun metal blue

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Scrawled across the shoulders of a dying town

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The one eyed jacks, across the railroad tracks

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And the scar on its belly pulled a stranger passing through

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He was a juvenile delinquent, never learned how to behave

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But the cops would never think to look

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In Burma Shave
[Verse 2]
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And the road was like a ribbon, and the moon was like a bone

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He didn't seem to be like any guy she'd ever known

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He kinda looked like Farley Grainger, with his hair slicked back

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She says i'm a sucker for a fella in a cowboy hat

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How far are you going

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He said depends on what you mean

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He says i'm only stop in ' here to get some gasoline

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I guess  i'm going thataway just as long as it's paved

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And I guess you'd say i'm on my way

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To burma shave
[Verse 3]
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And  with her knees up on the glove compartment, she took out her barrettes

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And her hair spilled out like root beer

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And she popped her gum and arched her back

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Hell Marysville ain't nothing , but a wide spot in the road

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Some nights my heart pounds just like thunder i don't know why it don't explode

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Cause everyone in this stinking town, has got one foot in the grave

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And i'd rather take my chances

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Out in burma shave
[Verse 4]
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Presley's what i go by, why don't you change the station

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Count the grain elevators in the rearview mirror

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Mister anywhere you point this thing, has got to beat the hell out of the sting

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Of going to bed with every dream that dies here every mornin,

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And so drill me a hole

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With a barber pole

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I'm jumping my parole just like a fugitive tonight

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Why don't you have another swig, and pass that car if you're so brave

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I wanna get there before the sun comes up in

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Burma Shave
[Verse 5]
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And the spider web crack and the mustang screamed

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Smoke from the tires and the twisted machine

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Just a nickel's worth of dreams and every wishbone that they saved

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Lie swindled from them on the way to

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Burma Shave
[Verse 6]
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And the sun hit the derrick and cast a bat wing shadow

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Up against the car door on the shotgun side

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And when they pulled her from the wreck you know she

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Still had on her shades

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They say that dreams are growing wild just this side of

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Burma Shave