Tom Waits - Hold Onadd

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They hung a sign up in our town
        F                    A#
"If you live it up you won't live it down"
                  D#
So she left Monte Rio, son
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Just like a bullet leaves a gun
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With her charcoal eyes and Monroe hips
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She went and took that California trip
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Oh the moon was gold and her hair like wind
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She said don't look but just a-come on Jim

               A#        F
Oh, you got to hold on, hold on
A#         D#
You gotta hold on
A#                 F
Take my hand, I'm standin' right here
           A#
You got go hold on

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Well he gave her a dime store watch
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And a ring made from a spoon
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Everyone's lookin' for someone to blame
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When you share my bed you share my name
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Well, go ahead and call the cops
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You don't meet nice girls in coffee shops
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She said baby I still love you
       Cm                    F
Sometimes there's nothin' left to

Nak.

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Well God bless your crooked little heart
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St. Louis got the best of me
              D#
I miss your broken China voice
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Now I wish you were still here with me
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Oh you build it up, you wreck it down
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Then you burn your mansion to the ground
Cm                     F
Oh there's nothin' left to keep you here
Cm                     F
But when you're fallin' behind in this big blue world

Nak.

A#                D#
Now by the riverside motel
     F            A#

It's ten below and falling
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By a ninety-nine cent store
F                        A#
She closed her eyes and started swaying
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But it's so hard to dance that way
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When it's cold and there's no music
Cm              F
With your old hometown so far away
Cm                                  F
But inside your head there's a record that's playin', a song called

Nak. (4x)

A#
You gotta hold on.