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Clap Hands Tab

by Tom Waits


...CLAP HANDS... by Tom Waits
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*from 'Rain Dogs' (1985)*


Intro:

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   (x2), 

Verse 1:


 Sane, sane, they're all insane,
Fireman's blind; the conductor is lame.
A Cincinnati jacket and a sad-luck dame,
Hanging out the window with a bottle full of rain.

Chorus 1:

               
Clap hands, clap hands.
               
Clap hands, clap hands.

Verse 2:

      
Said; roar, roar, the thunder and the roar,
Son of a bitch is never coming back here no more.
The moon in the window and a bird on the pole,
We can always find a millionaire to shovel all the coal.

Chorus 2:

               
Clap hands, clap hands.
               
Clap hands, clap hands.

Bridge 1:

                    
Said; steam, steam; a hundred bad dream,
                         
 Going up to Harlem with a pistol in his jeans.
                           
A fifty-dollar bill, iside a palladin's hat,
    
And nobody's sure where Mr. Knickerbocker's at.

Verse 3:


 Roar, roar, the thunder and the roar,
Son of a bitch is never coming back here no more.
The moon in the window and a bird on the pole,
We can always find a millionaire to shovel all the coal.

Chorus 3:

               
Clap hands, clap hands.
               
Clap hands, clap hands.

Interlude:

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   (x2), 

Bridge 2:

                    
Said; steam, steam; a hundred bad dream,
                         
 Going up to Harlem with a pistol in his jeans.
                           
A fifty-dollar bill, iside a palladin's hat,
    
And nobody's sure where Mr. Knickerbocker's at.

Verse 4:


 Shine, shine, a Roosevelt dime,
All the way to Baltimore and running out of time.
Salvation Army seemed to wind up in the hole,
They all went to Heaven in a little row boat.

Chorus 4:

               
Clap hands, clap hands.
               
Clap hands, clap hands.
               
Clap hands, clap hands.
               
Clap hands, clap hands.

(Repeat to Fade)


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