I Like To Sleep Late In The Morning by Tom Waits, tabs and chords at PlayUkuleleNET

I Like To Sleep Late In The Morning

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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In the Tom Waits version, he really plucks those strings hard.
Like he's testing the breaking strain hard.

Have included how I play the turn around/step down thingy that's
at the end of each verse.

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I LIKE TO SLEEP LATE IN THE MORNING

A D D A
Some woman told me today, Wastin' your life away
A D D E
Sittin' round in your prime, Gettin' drunk on a bottle of wine
D A D A
I like to sleep late in the mornin', Don't like to wear no shoes
D A E
Makin' love to the women, While I'm livin', Gettin' drunk on a bottle of

A D D A
Some woman told me today, Wastin' your life away
A D D E
Sittin' round in your prime, Gettin' drunk on a bottle of wine
D A D A
I like to sleep late in the mornin', Don't like to wear no shoes
D A E
Makin' love to the women, While I'm livin', Gettin' drunk on a bottle of

** THIS IS THE STEP DOWN PLAYED OVER THESE LYRICS **
PICK THE BASS NOTES AS YOU FINGER THE CHORDS

While I'm living, Gettin' Drunk on a bottle of
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