Poverty Train chords by Laura Nyro

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Intro:

   C                                           Last call for the poverty train
e|--------------/-6-------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------8-p-6-\-4----6-p-4-----------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------5-------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--3-(distorted)---------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------------|

     C                                    Ab    Last call for the poverty train
e|----------------------------------------11------------------------------|
B|---4------------------------------------13------------------------------|
G|------5--3--5---------------------------13------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------13------------------------------|
A|---3--------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------------|

C      Gm/C      F/Bb      F/A


Verse 1:
   C              Gm/C       F/Bb         F/A
It looks good and dirty on   shiny light  strip
             C          Gm/C         F/Bb           F/A
And if you don't get  beat you got     yourself a trip
          Eb/Ab         Dm7            Eb/Ab          Dm7
You can see the walls roar, see your brains on the floor
         Eb/Ab       Dm7             Eb/Ab     Gm7
Become God, become cripple, become funky and split       why was I


Chorus 1:
Fm7      Fm/C  Fm7       Fm/C  Fm7           Fm/C  Fm7          Fm/C
  born?            Wo-o-oah   mm no no no no            whoa-oh
Fm7            Fm/C   Fm7              Fm/C   Fm7           Fm/C
no no ne no                wo-oah woah      a-no no no nooo
Fm7           F     F/G
    no no noooooo   noooooooo oh baby


Verse 2:
  C            Gm/C           F/Bb      F/A
I just saw the Devil and he's smilin at me
           C          Gm/C        F/Bb              F/A
I heard my bones cry, Devil why's     it  got to be
      Eb/Ab         Dm7         Eb/Ab                Dm7
Devil played with my   brother
Devil drove my mother
       Eb/Ab           Dm7        Eb/Ab       Gm7
Now the   tears in the gutter are floodin the sea      why was I


Chorus 2:
Fm7      Fm/C  Fm7         Fm/C  Fm7          Fm/C  Fm7               Fm/C
  born?            Wo-o-oah    u-no no na no            whoa-o-wo-oah
  Fm7         Fm/C  Fm7                F     F/G
u-no no ne no            no no noooooo   noooooooo oh baby


Verse 3:
   C              Gm/C        F/Bb         F/A
it looks good and dirty, them shiny lights glow   a million
C             Gm/C              F/Bb                  F/A
night tramps, tricks and tracks      will come and go


Outro:
Eb/Ab                  Dm7             F    Em     F/G
     You're starvin today          But who  cares  anyway?   Baby it
C              Gm7/C      Ab    Gm    Cm7
feels like I'm dyin       no -   ow       I swear there's somethin better than
Ab                                       C
     Gettin off on sweet cocaaaine (single note) It feeeeeels so gooood
Ab                       Db
     It feeeels so gooood      gettin off the poverty
          G        F            Gm7/C
traaaain (slow single notes)    mornin



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