Tom Waits – Whistle Down The Wind (Guitar)

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Chords

[Verse 1]
D      A             D         G
I grew up here now all of my life

        Em       A         D  G D
But I dreamed someday I'd go

            D         A        D      G  
Where the blue-eyed girls and red guitars and

      Em     A     D   G D
The naked rivers flow
[Chorus]
G 
I'm not all I thought I'd be

    F#m            D
I always stayed around

  G        
I've been as far as Mercy and Grand

  Em            A7
Frozen to the ground
[Verse 2]
D        A                  D           G
I can't stay here and I'm scared to leave

     Em       A         D     
Just kiss me once and then

      D      A      D        G
I'll go to hell, I might as well

       Em      A        D    G D
Be whistlin' down the wind
[Break]
    G               D
The bus is at the corner

    G             D
The clock on the wall

  G            F#m
Broken down windmill

         A
There's no wind at all

      G             D
I've yelled and I cursed

      G              D
If I stay here I'll rust

      G            Bm
I'm stuck like a shipwreck

  A
Out here in the dust
[Instrumental Break] D A D G Em A D D A D G Em A D G D [Verse 3]
     D      A              D        G
The sky is red and the world's on fire

          Em      A           D    
And the corn is taller than me

     D      A         D        G
The dog is tied to a wagon of rain

         Em         A          D   G D
And the road is as wet as the sea
[Chorus 2]
      G
And sometimes the music from a dance

       F#m                D
Will carry across the plains

          G 
And the places that I'm dreaming of

          Em           A7
Do they dream only of me?
[Verse 4]
            D      A          D      G
There are places where they never sleep

          Em      A     D     
And the circus never ends

   D       A        D           G
So I will take the Marleybone coach

         Em       A        D     G D
And be whistling down the wind

   D       A       D            G
so I will take the Marleybone coach

Em         A         D    G   D
Whistling down the wind