Tom Waits - Hold Onadd

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

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

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

Nak.

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

Nak.

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

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

Nak. (4x)

G#
You gotta hold on.