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Fannin Street Tab

by Tom Waits



capo on 3rd fret
(A*->A4->F#m is a variation (1 finger) on E string: E:-5-4-2- )

intro: 

                                  
There's a crooked street in Houston town
                                  
It's a well long path I've traveled down
                                    *        ()     
Now there's ruin in my name, I wish I never got off the train
                                     
I wished I'd listened to the words you said

         
Don't go down...to Fannin Street
                         
Don't go down...to Fannin Street
                         *    ()  
Don't go down...to Fannin Street...oh yeah
                        
You'll be lost and never found
                  
You can never turn around
                          
Don't go down...to Fannin Street

                                
Once I held you in my arms, I was sure
                                              
And I took that silent step through the gilded door
                                    *      ()    
The desire to have much more, all the glitter and the roar
                                 
Now I know just where the sidewalk ends

         
Don't go down...to Fannin Street
                         
Don't go down...to Fannin Street
                         *    ()  
Don't go down...to Fannin Street...oh yeah
                        
You'll be lost and never found
                  
You can never turn around
                          
Don't go down...to Fannin Street

                                         
When I was young I thought only of getting out
                                       
I said goodbye to my street, goodbye to my house
                                        *   ()       
Give a man gin, give a man cards, give an inch he takes a yard
                                         
And I rue the day that I stepped off this train

         
Don't go down...to Fannin Street
                         
Don't go down...to Fannin Street
                         *    ()  
Don't go down...to Fannin Street...oh yeah
                        
You'll be lost and never found
                  
You can never turn around
                          
Don't go down...to Fannin Street
         
Don't go down...to Fannin Street
                         
Don't go down...to Fannin Street
                         *    ()  
Don't go down...to Fannin Street...oh yeah
                              
Cause you'll be lost and never found
                  
You can never turn around
                          
Don't go down...to Fannin Street
                          
Don't go down...to Fannin Street
                          
Don't go down...to Fannin Street.