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Whistlin Past The Graveyard

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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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(Guitar)
[Verse]
Bm
e|-------------|
B|----------3--|
G|----------4--|
D|----------4--| (Repeat this pattern 7 times, one for each lyric line)
A|--------2-2--|
E|2-5-2-5------|

(and on the 8th time it goes up to the Chorus like so)
e|----------------------------|
B|----------------------------|
G|----------------------------|
D|--------------------2-2-----|
A|--------2-2-4-4-5-5---------|
E|2-5-2-5---------------------|

[Chorus]
G7 F#7 G7 F#7
e|------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-------------2-----------------1-----------------2----------------|
A|-----2-2-5--5-5-2------1-1-4--4-4-1------2-2-5--5-5-2------1-1-4--|
E|-3-3---------------2-2---------------3-3---------------2-2--------|

(And back to the Bm verse pattern shown above)

(All this fits beautifully with this Bass pattern)

[Verse]
G|-----4--4-----------|
D|----------4--4------|
A|-2-------------5--5-|
E|--------------------|

[Chorus]
G7 F#7
G|---------------------|---------------------|
D|-5--5----------------|---------------------|
A|------5--5-2--2------|-----------1--1------|
E|----------------3--3-|-2--2-4--4------2--2-|

G7 F#7 Bm (back to pattern)
G|------------------?---|--------------------------------|
D|----------------5-23--|-4--4---------------------------|
A|------2--2-5--5-------|------4--4--------0---0---2-----|
E|-3--3-----------------|-----------2----2---2-----------|

[Verse 1]
Bm Bm
Well I come in on a night train With an arm full of box cars
Bm Bm
On the wings of a magpie Cross a hooligan night
Bm Bm
And I busted up a chifforobe Way out by the cocomo
Bm Bm
Cooked up a mess a mulligan And got into a fight

[Chorus]
G7 F#7
Whistlin' past the graveyard Steppin on a crack
G7 F#7
I'm a mean motherhubbard Papa one-eyed jack

[Verse 2]
Bm Bm
You've probably seen me sleepin Out by the railroad tracks
Bm Bm
Go on and ask the prince of darkness What about all that smoke come from the stack
Bm Bm
Sometimes I kill myself a jacket suck out all the blood
Bm Bm
Steal myself a station wagon Drive it through the mud

[Chorus]
G7 F#7
Whistlin' past the graveyard Steppin on a crack
G7 F#7
I'm a mean motherhubbard Papa one-eyed jack

[Verse 3]
Bm Bm
I know you seen my headlights And the honkin' of my horn
Bm Bm
I'm callin' out my bloodhounds Chase the devil through the corn
Bm Bm
Last night I chugged the Mississippi Now that sucker's dry as a bone
Bm Bm
Born in a taxi cab I'm never comin' home

[Chorus]
G7 F#7
Whistlin' past the graveyard Steppin on a crack
G7 F#7
I'm a mean motherhubbard Papa one-eyed jack

[Verse 4]
Bm Bm
My eyes have seen the glory Of the draining of the ditch
Bm Bm
I only come to baton rouge To find myself a witch
Bm Bm
I'm-ona snatch me up a couple of 'em every time it rains
Bm Bm
You see a locomotive prob'ly thinkin' it's a train

[Chorus]
G7 F#7
Whistlin' past the graveyard Steppin on a crack
G7 F#7
I'm a mean motherhubbard Papa one-eyed jack

[Verse 5]
Bm Bm
What you think is the sunshine Is just a twinkle in my eye
Bm Bm
That ring around my fingers it's just the 4th of July
Bm Bm
When I get a little bit lonesome And a tear falls from my cheek
Bm Bm
There's gonna be an ocean in the mid - dle of the week

[Chorus]
G7 F#7
Whistlin' past the graveyard Steppin on a crack
G7 F#7
I'm a mean motherhubbard Papa one-eyed jack

[Verse 6]
Bm Bm
I rode into town on a night train with an arm full of box cars
Bm Bm
On the wings of a magpie cross a hooligan night
Bm Bm
I'ma tear me off a rainbow and wear it for a tie
Bm Bm
I never told the truth so I can never tell a lie

[Chorus]
G7 F#7
Whistlin' past the graveyard Steppin on a crack
G7 F#7
I'm a mean motherhubbard Papa one-eyed jack