Warren Zevon – The French Inhaler (Ukulele)

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From the 1976 album "Warren Zevon" (For the "Preludes" demo version, use a capo at the first fret.) D D/F# D D A D Bm7 A A7
D
How're you going to make your way in the world, woman

         G           A       D
When you weren't cut out for working?

          G           D/F#        A
When your fingers are slender and frail?

G                       D/F#
How're you going to get around

        G  D/F#  Em7   D
In this sleazy   bedroom town

       G             D/F#        Asus4   A
If you don't put yourself up for sale?

G                           F#m7                D
Where will you go with your scarves and your miracles?

G           D/F#         A
Who's gonna know who you are?

G                  D/F#
Drugs and wine and flattering light

         G                     D/F#
You must try it again till you get it right

G                D/F#            Em              Bm7   F#m  F#m7
Maybe you'll end up with someone different every night

A         G              D/F#    G  D/F#
All these people with no home to go home to

       G   D/F#    A         D          Em
They'd all like to spend the night with you

               G    G  E/G#  A
Maybe I would, too
But tell me
D
How're you going to make your way in the world, woman

         G           A       D
When you weren't cut out for working

        G    D/F#  Em D   A
And you just can't concentrate

        G  D   A    D   G
And you always show up late

    G                D
You said you were an actress

       G           D
Yes, I believe you are

G                    D/F#
I thought you'd be a star

     D7               G
So I drank up all the money,

       G                D        Bm
Yes, I drank up all the money,

           G       D       A    D    G
With these phonies in this Hollywood bar,

      G          D            A    D    G
These friends of mine in this Hollywood bar

Em             F#
Loneliness and frustration

Bm           A             G
We both came down with an acute case

             D/F#
And when the lights came up at two

  A  
I caught a glimpse of you

         Bm          A
And your face looked like something

G             D               G
Death brought with him in his suitcase

            D
Your pretty face

             G
It looked so wasted

               D
Another pretty face

     G
Devastated

A     F#m7      D
  The French Inhaler

G                D
  He stamped and mailed her

G   D     A   D  
"So long, Norman"

D          G  D     A  D      D  Em7  A  Asus4  A    D
She said, "So long, Norman" 
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