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A Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun

by Tom Waits

Biography:

Tom Waits (born Thomas Alan Waits, in Pomona, California, on December 7, 1949) is a prolific American singer, songwriter, composer, and actor.

He started his career in the early 1970s as a singer in spit 'n' sawdust bars. Initially, he was deeply influenced by the beat generation, novelists like Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, and poets like Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski. Waits is often compared to Charles Bukowski, being similar both in content and lifestyle

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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
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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
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like Marilyn Monroe
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and you could throw my dreams out in the street
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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
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with sweet little wishes and pretty blue dreams

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And it's raining it's pouring and Hollywood's just fine
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Swindle a little girl out of her dreams
E F#7 Gm G#m
another letter in the sign

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Now never trust a scarecrow wearin' shades after dark
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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)

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No, that ain't no cherry bomb
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4th of July's all done

Just some fool playin' that second line
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from the barrel of a pretty blue gun

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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