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- DOWNTOWN TRAIN (by Tom Waits; recorded by Mary-Chapin Carpenter)
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- [Each chord is half a measure.]
- [Try using C(9) instead of C sometimes, and Dsus instead of D; I'm
- not sure _exactly_ which chords are used.]
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- G G C D G G C D G G C D G G C D
- [intro]
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- G G C D G G
- Outside another yellow moon
- C D
- Has punched a hole in the nighttime
- G G C D G G
- I climb through the window and down to the street
- C D
- I'm shining like a new dime
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- C C D D
- The downtown trains are full
- C C D D
- With all those Brooklyn girls
- Em Em D/F# D/F#
- They try so hard to break out of their little world
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- You wave your hand and they scatter like crows
- They have nothing that will ever capture your heart
- They're just thorns without the rose
- Oh, be careful of them in the dark
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- And if I was the one
- You chose to be your only one
- Oh baby now, can't you hear me now
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- G G C C G G C C
- Will I see you tonight on a downtown train
- G G C C Am Am D D (G...)
- Where every night is just the same; You leave me lonely now
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- (Now) I know your window and I know it's late
- I know your stairs and your doorway
- I walk down your street and past your gate
- I stand by the light at the fourway
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- You watch them as they fall
- Ooh, and they all have heart attacks
- They stay at the carnival, but they'll never win you back
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- Will I see you tonight on a downtown train
- Where every night, every night is just the same; you leave me lonely
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- Will I see you tonight on a downtown train
- Where every night, every night is just the same, all upon a downtown
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- G D G D G D D D
- train [instrumental]
- G D G D G D D D D D
- [instrumental]
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- Will I see you tonight on a downtown train
- Where every night, every night is just the same, you leave me lonely
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- Will I see you tonight on a downtown train
- Where all my dreams just fall like the rain, all upon a downtown train
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- [Fade on G G C D...]
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- - Adam Schneider, schn0170@maroon.tc.umn.edu
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