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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I play most 7-chord like they are diplayd below. Kind of blues-chords as I was taught some time ago. You can get it groooving really good this way, as you are almost sliding down Bm7-A7-G7---F7.
BmF#7BmF#7Bm Friday left me fumblin' with the blues Bm7A7G7F#7* And it's hard to win when you always lose Bm7A7G7 Because the nightspots spend your spirit Bm7* E7 beat your head against the wall BmF#7BmF#7Bm two dead-ends you still got to choose
BmF#7BmF#7Bm You know the bartenders they all know my name Bm7A7G7F#7* and they catch me when I'm pulling up lame Bm7A7G7F#7* Bm7* E7 and I'm a pool-shooting-shimmy-shyester shaking my head BmF#7BmF#7Bm when I should be living clean in stead
BmF#7BmF#7Bm You know the ladies I've been seeing off and on Bm7A7G7F#7* well they spend your love then they're gone Bm7A7G7F#7* Bm7* E7 you can't be loving someone who is savage and cruel BmF#7BmF#7Bm Take your love and then they leave on out of town... No they do...
When I'm falling in love, It's such a breeze but it's standing up that's so hard for me I wanna sqeeze you but I'm scared to death I'll break your back instead You know your perfume, well it won't let me be
BmF#7BmF#7Bm You know the bartenders they all know my name Bm7A7G7F#7* and they catch me when I'm pulling up lame Bm7A7G7F#7* Bm7* E7 and I'm a pool-shooting-shimmy-shyester shaking my head BmF#7BmF#7Bm when I should be living clean in stead
so come on baby, let your love light shine gotta bury me inside of your fire cause your eyes are enough to blind me you're like a-looking at the sun you gotta whisper tell me I'm the one come on and whisper tell me I'm the one gotta whisper tell me I'm the one come on and whisper tell me I'm the one