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Downtown Train Tab

by Tom Waits


...DOWNTOWN TRAIN... by Tom Waits
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*from 'Rain Dogs' (1985)*


*CAPO 1st FRET*

(Original Key: )


Intro:

,    (x2)

Verse 1:

                       
 Outside, a-nother yellow moon,
                         
Has punched a hole in the night-time, yes.
                             
 I climb through the window and down to the street,
                  
I'm shining like a new dime.

Bridge 1:

             
 The downtown trains are full,
                  
 With all of those Brooklyn girls.
                    
 They try so hard to break out of their little worlds.

Verse 2:

                                                   
 Well, you wave your hand and they scatter like crows,
                                                  
They have nothing that will ever capture your heart.
                                      
 They're just thorns, without the rose;
             
Be careful of them in the dark.

Bridge 2:

         
 Oh, if I was the one,
                          
 You chose to be your only one.
                              
Oh baby, can't you hear me now? Can't you hear me now?

Chorus 1:

                       
 Will I see you to-night,
                    
 On a downtown train?
                              
 Every night it's just the same;

 You leave me lonely, now.

Verse 3:

                                 
 I know your window and I know it's late,
                           
I know your stairs and your doorway.
                                    
 I walk down your street and past your gate,
                           
I stand by the light at the four-way.

Bridge 3:

                       
 You watch them as they fall,
                            
Oh baby, they all have heart-attacks.
                                     
They stay at the carnival but they'll never win you back.

Chorus 2:

                       
 Will I see you to-night,
                    
 On a downtown train?
                                                 
Where every night, every night, it's just the same.

 Oh baby...

                       
 Will I see you to-night,
                    
 On a downtown train?
                                
 All of my dreams, they fall like rain,
   
Oh baby, on a downtown train.

Interlude:

  ,   ,   ,  (x2)

Chorus 3:


 Will I see you,
         
To-night,
                    
 On a downtown train?
                                                 
Where every night, every night, it's just the same.

 Oh baby...

                       
 Will I see you to-night,
                    
 On a downtown train?
                                
 All of my dreams, they fall like rain,
   
Oh baby, on a downtown train.

Coda:

                  
   All on a downtown train,
                  
   All on a downtown train.
                  
   All on a downtown train,
          
 A downtown train.

(Repeat to Fade)


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