Tom Waits - Hold Onadd

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

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

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

Nak.

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

Nak.

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

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

Nak. (4x)

D#
You gotta hold on.