Tom Waits - A Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun

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well it’s raining it’s pouring , you didn’t bring a sweater
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nebraska’ll never let you come back home

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hollywood and vine by the thrifty mart sign
D7/F# E F#7 Gm G#m
any night i’ll be willin’ to bet

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there’s a young girl with sweet little dreams and pretty blue wishes
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standin’ there just gettin’ all wet

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and there’s a place off the drag called the gilbert hotel
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and there’s a couple letters burned out in the sign

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and it’s better than a bus stop they do good business every time it rains

for little girls with nothing in their jeans
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but pretty blue wishes and sweet little jeans

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and it’s raining it’s pouring , the old man is snoring

now i lay me down to sleep

i hear the sirens in the street

all my dreams are made of chrome
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i have no way to get back home

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i’d rather die before i wake
D7/F#
like marilyn monroe
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and you could throw my dreams out in the street
D7/F# E Am
and let the rain make ’em grow

( solo )

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now the night clerk he got a club foot

he’s heard every hard luck story
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at least a hundred times or more
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he says : check out time is 10 A . m .

and that’s just what it means

go on up the stairs
D7/F# E Am
with sweet little wishes and pretty blue dreams

Am D7/F#
and it’s raining it’s pouring and hollywood’s just fine
Am
swindle a little girl out of her dreams
E F#7 Gm G#m
another letter in the sign

Am

now never trust a scarecrow wearin’ shades after dark
D7/F#
be careful of that old bow tie he wears

it takes a sweet little bullet from a pretty blue gun
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to put those scarlet ribbons in your hair

( solo )

Am
no , that ain’t no cherry bomb
D/F#
4th of july’s all done

just some fool playin’ that second line
D7/F# E Am
from the barrel of a pretty blue gun

Am
no , that ain’t no cherry bomb
D/F#
4th of july’s all done

just some fool playin’ that second line
D7/F# E Am
from the barrel of a pretty blue gun