Van Morrison – Cleaning Windows (Guitar)

Capo 3
Key
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Chords

Cappo on Third Fret [Intro] G [Verse]
C                                                            G
Oh, the smell of the bakery from across the street got in my nose

C                                                                     G
As we carried our ladders down the street with the wrought-iron gate rows

C                                                        G
I went home and listened to Jimmie Rodgers in my lunch-break

D                                                                          G
Bought five Woodbines at the shop on the corner and went straight back to work
[Verse]
     C                                                 G
Oh, Sam was up on top And I was on the bottom with the V

C                                                              G
We went for lemonade and Paris buns at the shop and broke for tea

C                                                       G
I collected from the lady and I cleaned the fanlight inside-out

D                                                     G
I was blowing saxophone on the weekend in that down joint
[Chorus]
G       D        Em
What's  my     line?

      D              C
I'm happy cleaning windows

G       D        Em
Take     my      time

      D              C
I'll see you when my love grows

G           D        Em
Baby don't let it slide

        D                  C
I'm a working man in my prime

           G
Cleaning windows (number hundred and thirty-six)
[Verse]
C                                                            G
I heard Leadbelly and Blind Lemon on the street where I was born

C                                                                     G
Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, and Muddy Waters singin' I'm A Rolling Stone

C                                                     G
I went home and read my Christmas Humphreys' book on Zen

D                                                           G
Curiosity Killed The Cat, Kerouac's Dharma Bums and On The Road
[Chorus]
G       D        Em
What's  my     line?

      D              C
I'm happy cleaning windows

G       D        Em
Take     my      time

      D              C
I'll see you when my love grows

G           D        Em
Baby don't let it slide

        D                  C
I'm a working man in my prime

           G
Cleaning windows
I'll say it again... (and then he continues to 'say it again')...