Tom Waits - Hold Onadd

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

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

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

Nak.

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

Nak.

F                A#
Now by the riverside motel
     C            F

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

Nak. (4x)

F
You gotta hold on.