Tom Waits – Kentucky Avenue (Guitar)

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Chords

|Aadd9/C# - D6| - |Aadd9/C# - D6|
Aadd9/C#                       D6
  Eddie Grace's Buick got four bullet holes in the side

Aadd9/C#                                          Bm7     E7
and Charlie Delisle is sittin' at the top of an avocado tree

     Aadd9/C#                                      D6
Mrs. Storm will stab you with a steak knife if you step on her lawn

Aadd9/C#                                        Bm7             E7
  I got a half a pack of Lucky Strikes, man, so come along with me

Aadd9/C#                    D6
Let's fill our pockets with macadamia nuts

       Aadd9/C#                       Bm7          E7
And go over to Bobby Goodmanson's and jump off the roof

      Aadd9/C#                         D6
Well, Hilda plays strip poker when her mama's 'cross the street

Aadd9/C#                            Bm7        E7
Joey Navinski says she put her tongue in his mouth

      Aadd9/C#                              D6        Db7
Dicky Faulkner's got a switchblade and some gooseneck risers

     Gbm7            B9                   Bm7              E7
That eucalyptus is a hunchback, there's a wind up from the south

          Aadd9/C#
So let me tie you up with kite string

         D6
and I'll show you the scabs on my knee

Aadd9/C#
Watch out for the broken glass, put your shoes and socks on

Bm7                   E7
  and come along with me
Let's follow that fire truck I think your house is burnin' down Then go down to the hobo jungle and kill some rattlesnakes with a trowel And we'll break all the windows in the old Anderson place And we'll steal a bunch of boysenberries and I'll smear 'em on your face I'll get a dollar from my mama's purse and buy that scull and crossbones ring And you can wear it 'round your neck on an old piece of string Then we'll spit on Ronnie Arnold and flip him the bird And slash the tires on the school bus now don't say a word I'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials in my arm And I'll show you how to sneak up on the roof of the drugstore I'll take the spokes from your wheelchair and a magpie's wings And I'll tie 'em to your shoulders and your feet I'll steal a hacksaw from my dad and cut the braces off your legs And we'll bury them tonight out in the cornfield
           Aadd9/C#
Just put a church key in your pocket

               D6
we'll hop that freight train in the hall

      Aadd9/C#
We'll slide all the way down the drain

Bm7      E7             Aadd9/C#     D6
  to New Orleans in the fall
|Aadd9/C# - D6| - |Aadd9|