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Better Off Without A Wife

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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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From: [email protected] (spideir)
Subject: CRD: Better Off Without a Wife (T. Waits)

BETTER OFF WITHOUT A WIFE (Tom Waits)
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-- comp. Tom Waits (from _Nighthawks_at_the_Diner_)
-- "transcr." tcg [recently divorced!], 198?
-- 4/4 // Key of G // Andante (pretty slow)
-- each chord symbol OR slash = 1 beat

"Odd" Voicings--
D7sus4 D7sus4/G C/G D7/F#
xxo___ __o___ ______ __o___
1 ||||1| 1 ||||1| 1 ||||1| 1 ||||1|
|||2|| |||2|| ||2||| 2x|3|4
|||||3 3x|||4 3x|||4 ||||||

INTRO: 1 2 3 4 | 1 2 3 4
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G / D7sus4/G / | G / D7sus4/G /
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G D7/F# Em(7) / | Am(7) / D(7) /

VERSE 1:
G / D7sus4 /
All my friends are married--
G / D7sus4 /
Ev'ry Tom and Dick and Harry--
G D7/F# Em(7) / Am(7) / D(7) /
It must be strong of you to go it alone--
G / D7sus4 /
Here's to the bachelors and the Bow'ry bums--
G / D7sus4 /
Those who feel that they're the ones that are
G Em Am(7) D(7) G C/G G /
Better Off Without a Wife--

CHORUS:
C / D(7) /
I been sleepin' until the crack of noon--
G D7/F# Em /
Midnight howlin' at the moon-- and I been
Am(7) / D(7) /
Goin' out when I want to, (and I'm)
G / G7 /
Comin' home when I please--
C / D(7) /
Don't have to ask permission
G D7/F# Em /
If I wanna go out fishin'--
Am(7) / / / D7sus4 / D7 /
Never have to ask for the keys--

VERSE 2 [!!]:
G / D7sus4 /
Well, I never been no Valentino--
G / D7sus4 /
But I had a girl who lived in Reno--
G D7/F# Em(7) / Am(7) / D(7) /
Left me for a trumpet player, but it didn't get me down--
G / D7sus4 /
He was wanted for assault, and though he
G / D7sus4 /
Said it weren't his fault--
G Em Am(7) D(7) G C/G G /
You know the coppers rode him right outa town--

CHORUS

VERSE 3: [_underlined_phrases_are_spoken_, ad-lib style]

G / D7sus4 / G / D7sus4 /
_Ah,_yu'_see,_I'm_kinda_selfish_about_my privacy_--
G D7/F# Em(7) / Am(7) /
Now as long as I can be with me, _we_get_along_so_well,_I_can_
D(7) /
_hardly_believe_it_--
G / D7sus4 /
Love to chew the fat with folks--
G / D7sus4 /
I been list'nin' to all your dirty jokes--
G Em Am(7) D(7) G C/G G /
I'm so thankful for these friends I do receive--

CHORUS
[...recording ends (& begins) with some "Here Comes the Bride" piano!]

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