Chords with lyrics
Intro:
Bb majorBb G minorGm
Alarm goes off at seven and you start uptown.
DmDm Cm7Cm7 F7F7 Bb majorBb Bb majorBb F/AF/A G minorGm
You put in your eight hours for the powers that have always been.
G minorGm Cm7Cm7 Eb/FEb/F
Till it's five P.M., ... N.C.Then you go
Verse:
Bb majorBb FF Bb majorBb
Downtown, where the folks are broke.
DmDm A augmentedA DmDm
You go Downtown, where your life's a joke.
Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb
You go Downtown, when you buy your token,
G minorGm Eb/FEb/F Bb majorBb FF
You go, home to skid row
Bb majorBb G minorGm Eb/FEb/F
Home to skid row ...N.C.yes, you go
Bb majorBb FF Bb majorBb
Downtown, where the cabs don't stop
DmDm A augmentedA DmDm
Downtown, where the food is slop
Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb
Downtown, where the hop-heads flop
G minorGm Eb/FEb/F Bb majorBb FF Bb majorBb
In the snow - Down on Skid Row
Chorus:
Ebmaj
Uptown you cater to a million jerks.
G minorGm
Uptown you're messengers and mailroom clerks
C minorCm
Eating all your lunches at the hot dog carts.
F7F7
The bosses take your money and they break your hearts.
Ebmaj
Uptown you cater to a million whores.
G minorGm
You disinfect terrazzo on their bathroom floors.
C minorCm
Your job is really menial and you make no bread
C5C5 C#5C#5 D5D5 Eb5Eb5 F7F7
Then a five o'clock you head ...by subway
Verse, Audrey:
Bb majorBb FF Bb majorBb
Downtown, where the guys are drips.
DmDm A augmentedA DmDm
Downtown, where they rip your slips.
Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb
Downtown, where relationships
G minorGm Eb/FEb/F Bb majorBb FF Bb majorBb
Are no go - Down on skid row, (Down on skid row)
G minorGm D7D7 G minorGm
Down on skid row (Down on skid row)
Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb Cm7Cm7 F7F7
Down on skid row! Down on skid row! Down on skid row!
Bridge:
G minorGm D5D5 F5F5 G minorGm Eb MajorEb
Poor! All my life I've always been poor.
Bb5Bb5 D5D5 Eb MajorEb G minorGm
I keep asking God what I'm for,
D5D5 F5F5 G minorGm DmDm
And he tells me "Gee, I'm not sure
Cm7Cm7 Eb/FEb/F
Sweep that floor, kid."
C minorCm G+G C minorCm FF G minorGm
Oh, I started life as an orphan,
D7D7 G minorGm
A augmentedA child of the street
Bb majorBb C minorCm G+G
Here on skid row
C minorCm FF G minorGm Gm/F
He took me in, gave me shelter, a bed,
C7/EC7/E
Crust of bread and a job
Bb/DBb/D
Treats me like dirt,
C7C7 F7sus4F7sus4 F7F7
Calls me a slob, Which I am. So I live
Verse Seymour:
Bb majorBb
Downtown, that's your home address.
DmDm
You live Downtown, when your life's a mess.
Eb MajorEb G minorGm
You live Downtown, where depressions' just Status Quo.
Eb/FEb/F Bb majorBb
Down on skid row
Bb majorBb
Someone show me a way to get outa here,
DmDm
'Cause I constantly pray I'll get outa here
Eb MajorEb
Please, won't somebody say I'll get outa here
G minorGm Eb/FEb/F
Someone gimme my shot or I'll rot here.
Ending:
Bb majorBb
(Downtown) Show me how and I will, I'll get out-a here.
DmDm
(Downtown) I'll start climbin' up hill and get out-a here.
Eb MajorEb
(Downtown) Someone tell me I still could get out-a here.
G minorGm Eb/FEb/F
Someone tell lady luck that I'm stuck here.
Bb majorBb FF Bb majorBb FF Bb majorBb
(Downtown) Gee it sure would be swell to get out of here
DmDm A augmentedA DmDm A augmentedA DmDm
(Downtown) Bid the gutter fairwell and get out of here
Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb
(Downtown) I'd move heaven and hell to get out of skid
G minorGm F7sus4F7sus4
(Row) I'll do I dunno what to get outta skid
F7sus4F7sus4
(Downtown) but a hell of a lot to get out-a skid
F7sus4F7sus4
(Downtown) people tell me there's not a way out-a skid
F7sus4F7sus4 Bb majorBb
(Downtown) but believe me I gotta get out-a skid row.
Bb5Bb5 G5G5 F5F5 Bb5Bb5 G5G5 F5F5 G5G5 x6
Bb majorBb