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Little Shop Of Horrors - Skid Row Downtown

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Skid Row (Downtown)  as played on the Little Shop of Horrors Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
      Sung by Michelle Weeks, Tisha Campbell, Tichina Arnold, Ellen Greene, Rick Moranis
If you like this sheet, please spend 5* at the bottom, it only
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[Intro]
Bb                              Gm
Alarm goes off at seven and you start uptown.
    Dm
You put in your eight hours for the 
Cm7              F7     Bb    Bb F/A  Gm
Powers that have always been.
Gm             Cm7Eb/F
                    N.C.
Till it's five P.M.,     ... Then you go
[Verse]
Bb      F           Bb
Downtown, where the folks are broke.
       Dm       A            Dm
You go Downtown,  where your life's a joke.
       Eb       Bb          Eb
You go Downtown,   when you buy your token,
    Gm  Eb/F              Bb   F
You go,      home to skid row
Bb         Gm Eb/F
                 N.C.
Home to skid row      ...yes, you go
Bb        F         Bb
Downtown, where the cabs don't stop
Dm        A         Dm
Downtown, where the food is slop
Eb        Bb        Eb
Downtown, where the hop-heads flop
       Gm    Eb/F              Bb  F  Bb
In the snow  -    Down on Skid Row
[Chorus]
Ebmaj
Uptown you cater to a million jerks.
Gm
Uptown you're messengers and mailroom clerks
Cm
Eating all your lunches at the hot dog carts.
    F7
The bosses take your money and they break your hearts.
Ebmaj
Uptown you cater to a million whores.
    Gm
You disinfect terrazzo on their bathroom floors.
     Cm
Your job is really menial and you make no bread
C5     C#5    D5    Eb5 F7
Then a five o'clock you head  ...by subway
[Verse, Audrey]
Bb        F         Bb
Downtown, where the guys are drips.
Dm        A          Dm
Downtown, where they rip your slips.
Eb        Bb       Eb
Downtown, where relationships
       Gm   Eb/F               Bb            F    Bb
Are no go   -     Down on skid row, (Down on skid row)
              Gm          D7   Gm
Down on skid row (Down on skid row)
             Eb           Bb  Eb                 Cm7   F7
Down on skid row! Down on skid row! Down on skid row!
[Bridge]
Gm    D5  F5  Gm                   Eb
Poor! All my life I've always been poor.
Bb5 D5   Eb                  Gm
I   keep asking God what I'm for,
D5  F5  Gm                    Dm
and he tells me "Gee, I'm not sure
Cm7        Eb/F
Sweep that floor, kid."
Cm  G  Cm                 F  Gm
Oh,     I started life as an orphan,
           D7  Gm
a child of the street
        Bb   Cm  G
Here on skid row
Cm                 F   Gm         Gm/F
He took me in, gave me shelter, a bed,
         C7/E
Crust of bread and a job
Bb/D
Treats me like dirt,
C7                      F7sus4  F7
calls me a slob, Which I am.       So I live
[Verse Seymour]
Bb
Downtown, that's your home address.
         Dm
You live Downtown, when your life's a mess.
         Eb                               Gm
You live Downtown, where depressions' just Status Quo.
Eb/F         Bb
Down on skid row
Bb
Someone show me a way to get outa here,
Dm
  'Cause I constantly pray I'll get outa here
Eb
   Please, won't somebody say I'll get outa here
Gm               Eb/F
Someone gimme my shot or I'll rot here.
Ending
Bb
(Downtown) Show me how and I will, I'll get out-a here.
Dm
(Downtown) I'll start climbin' up hill and get out-a here.
Eb
(Downtown) Someone tell me I still could get out-a here.
Gm                Eb/F
Someone tell lady luck that I'm stuck here.
Bb                F             Bb           F      Bb
(Downtown) Gee it sure would be swell to get out of here
Dm                 A           Dm          A      Dm
(Downtown) Bid the gutter fairwell and get out of here
Eb                  Bb         Eb          Bb     Eb
(Downtown) I'd move heaven and hell to get out of skid
Gm                     F7sus4
(Row) I'll do I dunno what to get outta skid
F7sus4
(Downtown) but a hell of a lot to get out-a skid
F7sus4
(Downtown) people tell me there's not a way out-a skid
F7sus4                                           Bb
(Downtown) but believe me I gotta get out-a skid row.
Bb5G5F5Bb5 G5F5G5
             x6
Bb

Little Shop Of Horrors - Skid Row Downtown chords and lyrics

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Skid Row (Downtown)  as played on the Little Shop of Horrors Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
      Sung by Michelle Weeks, Tisha Campbell, Tichina Arnold, Ellen Greene, Rick Moranis
If you like this sheet, please spend 5* at the bottom, it only
takes 1 second and keeps me motivated to share more sheets, thanks.
[Intro]
[Verse]
[Chorus]
[Verse, Audrey]
[Bridge]
[Verse Seymour]
[Ending]
Bb5 G5 F5 Bb5    G5 F5 G5    x6
Bb

Little Shop Of Horrors - Skid Row Downtown Chords by Misc Soundtrack

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