Tom Waits - Hold Onadd

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

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

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

Nak.

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

Nak.

C#                F#
Now by the riverside motel
     G#            C#

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

Nak. (4x)

C#
You gotta hold on.