Burma Shave Uke tab by Tom Waits (Baritone Chords)

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 Licorice tattoo turned a gun metal blue,
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 Scrawled across the shoulders of a dying town.
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 Took the one eyed Jacks across the railroad tracks,
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 And the scar on its belly pulled a stranger passing through.
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 He's a juvenile delinquent, never learned how to behave,
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 But the cops'd never think to look in Burma-Shave.

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 And the road was like a ribbon, and the moon was like a bone,  
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 He didn't seem to be like any guy she'd ever known.
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 He kinda looked like Farley Granger, with his hair slicked back, 
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 She says I'm a sucker for a fella in a cowboy hat.
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 How far are you going?
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 He said depends on what you mean?
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 He says I'm only stoppin' here to get some gasoline.
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 I guess I'm going thataway just as long as it's paved, 
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 And I guess you'd say I'm on my way to Burma-Shave   

 
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And  with her knees up on the glove compartment,  
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Took out her barrettes,  
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And her hair spilled out like root beer, 
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And she popped her gum and arched her back. 
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Hell Marysville ain't nothing but a wide spot in the road, 
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Some night my heart pounds just like thunder I don't know 
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Why it don't explode.
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Cause everyone in this stinking town,  
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Has got one foot in the grave, 
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And I'd rather take my chances, 
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Out in Burma-Shave.
   
 
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Presley's what I go by, why don't you change the station 
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Count the grain elevators in the rearview mirror 
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Mister anywhere you point this thing,  
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Has got to beat the hell out of the sting 
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Of going to bed with every dream that dies here every mornin,  
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And so drill me a hole,
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With a barber pole.
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I'm jumping my parole just like a fugitive tonight, 
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Why don't you have another swig, 
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and pass that car if you're so brave?
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I wanna get there before the sun comes up in 
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Burma-Shave.
 
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And the spider web crack and the mustang screamed 
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Smoke from the tires and the twisted machine 
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Just a nickel's worth of dreams and every wishbone that they saved 
 
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Lie swindled from them on the way to 
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Burma shave   
 
 
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And the sun hit the derrick and cast a bat wing shadow 
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Up against the car door on the shotgun side 
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And when they pulled her from the wreck you know she  
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Still had on her shades 
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They say that dreams are growing wild just this side of 
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Burma Shave