{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":876971,"song":"Gun Street Girl","artist":"Tom Waits","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/876971-gun-street-girl-chords-by-tom-waits/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/876971?type=chord","rating":4.81578,"votes":75,"content":"...GUN STREET GIRL... by Tom Waits\r\n---------------------.............\r\n\r\n*from 'Rain Dogs' (1985)*\r\n\r\n\r\nIntro:\r\n\r\n[ch]Dm[/ch]\r\n\r\nVerse 1:\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]\r\n Falling James, in the Tahoe mud,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nStick around to tell us all the tale.[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nWell, he fell in love with a Gun Street girl,[/tab]\r\nAnd now he's dancing in the Birmingham jail;\r\nDancing in the Birmingham jail.\r\n\r\nVerse 2:\r\n\r\n[tab]   [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nHe took a hundred dollars off a, Slaughterhouse Joe,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nBrought a brand new Michigan twenty-gauge.[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nHe got all liquored up on that road house corn,[/tab]\r\nBlew a hole in the hood of a yellow Corvette,\r\nA hole in the hood of a yellow Corvette.\r\n\r\nInterlude:\r\n\r\n[ch]Dm[/ch]  [ch]A7[/ch]  [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\n\r\nVerse 3:\r\n\r\n[tab]            [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nHe bought a second-hand Nova from a Cuban Chinese,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                       [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nAnd dyed his hair in the bathroom of a Texaco.[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nWith a pawnshop radio, quarter past four,[/tab]\r\nHe left for Waukegan at the slamming of the door,\r\nLeft for Waukegan at the slamming of the door.\r\n\r\nChorus 1:\r\n\r\n[tab]       [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nI said John, John; he's long gone,[/tab]\r\nGone to Indiana; ain't never coming home.\r\nI said John, John; he's long gone,\r\nGone to Indiana; ain't never coming home.\r\n\r\nVerse 4:\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nHe's sitting in a sycamore, in St. John's wood,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                              [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nSoaking day-old bread in kero-sene.[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nWell, he was blue as a robin's egg and brown as a hog,[/tab]\r\nHe's staying out of circulation, 'till the dogs get tired,\r\nOut of circulation, 'ti'l the dogs get tired.\r\n\r\nVerse 5:\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]\r\n Shadow fixed the toilet with an old trombone,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                    [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nHe never get up in the morning on a Saturday.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]\r\n Sitting by the Erie with a bull-whipped dog,[/tab]\r\nTelling everyone he saw; \"they went that-a-way, boys\",\r\nTelling everyone he saw; \"they went that-a-way, boys\".\r\n\r\nVerse 6:\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nNow the rain's like gravel on an old tin roof,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                            [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nBurlington Northern pulling out of the world.[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nNow a head full of bourbon and a dream in the straw,[/tab]\r\nAnd a Gun Street girl was the cause of it all,\r\nA Gun Street girl was the cause of it all.\r\n\r\nVerse 7:\r\n\r\n[tab]          [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nWell he's riding in the shadow by the St. Joe ridge,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                     [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nHearing the click-clack tapping of a blind man's cane.[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nHe was pulling into Baker on a New Year's Eve,[/tab]\r\nOne eye on a pistol and the other on the door,\r\nOne eye on a pistol and the other on the door.\r\n\r\nVerse 8:\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nMiss Charlotte took her satchel down to King Fish Row,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nSmuggled in a brand new pair of alligator shoes,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nWith her fireman's raincoat and her long yellow hair,[/tab]\r\nWell, they tied her to a tree with a skinny millionaire,\r\nThey tied her to a tree with a skinny millionaire.\r\n\r\nChorus 2:\r\n\r\n[tab]       [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nI said John, John; he's long gone,[/tab]\r\nGone to Indiana; ain't never coming home.\r\nI said John, John; he's long gone,\r\nGone to Indiana; ain't never coming home.\r\n\r\nVerse 9:\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]\r\n Banging on the table with an old tin cup,[/tab]\r\nSing; I'll never kiss a Gun Street girl again.\r\nNever kiss a Gun Street girl again,\r\nI'll never kiss a Gun Street girl again.\r\n\r\nChorus 3:\r\n\r\n[tab]       [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nI said John, John; he's long gone,[/tab]\r\nGone to Indiana; ain't never coming home.\r\nI said John, John; he's long gone,\r\nGone to Indiana; ain't never coming home.\r\n\r\nOutro:\r\n\r\n[ch]Dm[/ch]\r\n\r\n\r\nCHORD DIAGRAMS:\r\n---------------\r\n\r\n   [ch]Dm[/ch]      [ch]A7[/ch]\r\n\r\n EADGBE  EADGBE\r\n xx0231  x02223\r\n\r\n\r\nTabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2006 (clumsyband@hotmail.com)","plain_text":"...GUN STREET GIRL... by Tom Waits\n---------------------.............\n\n*from 'Rain Dogs' (1985)*\n\n\nIntro:\n\nDm\n\nVerse 1:\n\n\n\n\nAnd now he's dancing in the Birmingham jail;\nDancing in the Birmingham jail.\n\nVerse 2:\n\n\n\n\nBlew a hole in the hood of a yellow Corvette,\nA hole in the hood of a yellow Corvette.\n\nInterlude:\n\nDm  A7  Dm\n\nVerse 3:\n\n\n\n\nHe left for Waukegan at the slamming of the door,\nLeft for Waukegan at the slamming of the door.\n\nChorus 1:\n\n\nGone to Indiana; ain't never coming home.\nI said John, John; he's long gone,\nGone to Indiana; ain't never coming home.\n\nVerse 4:\n\n\n\n\nHe's staying out of circulation, 'till the dogs get tired,\nOut of circulation, 'ti'l the dogs get tired.\n\nVerse 5:\n\n\n\n\nTelling everyone he saw; \"they went that-a-way, boys\",\nTelling everyone he saw; \"they went that-a-way, boys\".\n\nVerse 6:\n\n\n\n\nAnd a Gun Street girl was the cause of it all,\nA Gun Street girl was the cause of it all.\n\nVerse 7:\n\n\n\n\nOne eye on a pistol and the other on the door,\nOne eye on a pistol and the other on the door.\n\nVerse 8:\n\n\n\n\nWell, they tied her to a tree with a skinny millionaire,\nThey tied her to a tree with a skinny millionaire.\n\nChorus 2:\n\n\nGone to Indiana; ain't never coming home.\nI said John, John; he's long gone,\nGone to Indiana; ain't never coming home.\n\nVerse 9:\n\n\nSing; I'll never kiss a Gun Street girl again.\nNever kiss a Gun Street girl again,\nI'll never kiss a Gun Street girl again.\n\nChorus 3:\n\n\nGone to Indiana; ain't never coming home.\nI said John, John; he's long gone,\nGone to Indiana; ain't never coming home.\n\nOutro:\n\nDm\n\n\nCHORD DIAGRAMS:\n---------------\n\n   Dm      A7\n\n EADGBE  EADGBE\n xx0231  x02223\n\n\nTabbed by Joel from cLuMsY, Bristol, England, 2006 (clumsyband@hotmail.com)","chords":["Dm","A7","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"A7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,0,2,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,0,2,0]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]}}}