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- # From: indigo@cats.ucsc.edu (Adam Schneider)
- {t:Downtown Train}
- {st:Mary-Chapin Carpenter}
- #(by Tom Waits; recorded by Mary-Chapin Carpenter)
- #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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- Intro: [G] [G] [C] [D] [G] [G] [C] [D] [G] [G] [C] [D] [G] [G] [C] [D]
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- [G] [G] Outs[C]ide another[D] yellow m[G]oon[G]
- Has punched a [C]hole in the [D]nighttime
- [G] [G]I climb through the [C]window and d[D]own to the str[G]eet[G]
- I'm [C]shining like a [D]new dime
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- [C] [C] The downt[D]own trains are [D]full
- [C] With [C]all those Br[D]ooklyn g[D]irls
- [Em] They try [Em]so hard[D/F#] to break out of [D/F#]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] Will I [G]see you to[C]night [C] [G] on a [G]downtown [C]train[C]
- [G] Where e[G]very night [C] [C] is just the [Am]same;[Am] [D] You leave me [D]lonely now[G]
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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]train [D] (Ins[G]trum[D]ental[G]) [D] [D] [D]
- [G](Ins[D]trume[G]ntal[D]) [G] [D] [D] [D] [D] [D]
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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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