Thomas Alan Waits (nacido en Pomona (California) el 7 de diciembre de 1949) es un pianista, cantante, compositor y actor estadounidense, famoso por sus canciones de tono áspero inspiradas en escritores de la generación Beat, en especial Jack Kerouac
En 1967 comenzó a trabajar en los cabarets de Los Ángeles, ambiente que le influyó mucho para las canciones de su primer disco, Closing Time (1973), aunque este álbum se vio eclipsado por The Eagles y Tim Buckley
¡Cuatro años de duro trabajo!Este mes de mayo cumplimos cuatro años al aire. Seguimos trabajando en la difusión de este maravilloso instrumento, ¡gracias por participar en nuestra historia!
...VIRGINIA AVENUE... by Tom Waits ---------------------.............
*from 'Closing Time' (1973)*
*CAPO 1st FRET*
(Original Key: Fm)
Intro:
EmA7 (x6)
Verse 1:
EmA7EmA7 Well, I'm walking on down Virginia Aven-ue, EmA7Em7A7 Trying to find somebody to tell my troubles to. A7D7A7D7 Harold's club is closing and everybody's going on home; G7B7 What's a poor boy to do?
Verse 2:
EmA7EmA7 I'll just get on back into my short; make it back to the fort, EmA7EmA7 Sleep off all the crazy lizards inside of my brain. A7D7A7D7 There's got to be some place, that's better than this, G7B7 This life I'm leading's driving me in-sane. EmA7 And let me tell you, I'm dreaming...
Solo:
EmA7 (x3) A7D7 (x2) G7, B7
(B7) Let me tell you that...
Verse 3:
EmA7EmA7 I'm dreaming to the twilight; this town has got me down. EmA7EmA7 I've seen all the highlights, I've been walking all a-round. A7D7A7D7 I won't make a fuss; I'll take a Greyhound bus, G7B7 Carry me away from here; tell me; what have I got to lose?
Verse 4:
EmA7EmA7 'Cos I'm walking on down Columbus Aven-ue, EmA7EmA7 The bars are all closing, 'cos it's quarter to two. A7D7A7D7 Every town I go to, is like a lock without a key, G7B7 The blues I leave behind are catching up on me. Let me tell you;
Coda:
EmA7EmA7 They're catching up on me, they're catching up on me. EmA7EmA7 Catching up on me, catching up on me, B7A7G, Em Catching up on...