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Intro:
Bb Gm
Alarm goes off at seven and you start uptown.
Dm Cm7 F7 Bb Bb F/A Gm
You put in your eight hours for the powers that have always been.
Gm Cm7 Eb/F
Till it's five P.M., ... N.C.Then you go
Verse:
Bb F Bb
Downtown, where the folks are broke.
Dm A Dm
You go Downtown, where your life's a joke.
Eb Bb Eb
You go Downtown, when you buy your token,
Gm Eb/F Bb F
You go, home to skid row
Bb Gm Eb/F
Home to skid row ...N.C.yes, you go
Bb F Bb
Downtown, where the cabs don't stop
Dm A Dm
Downtown, where the food is slop
Eb Bb Eb
Downtown, where the hop-heads flop
Gm Eb/F Bb F Bb
In the snow - Down on Skid Row
Chorus:
Ebmaj
Uptown you cater to a million jerks.
Gm
Uptown you're messengers and mailroom clerks
Cm
Eating all your lunches at the hot dog carts.
F7
The bosses take your money and they break your hearts.
Ebmaj
Uptown you cater to a million whores.
Gm
You disinfect terrazzo on their bathroom floors.
Cm
Your job is really menial and you make no bread
C5 C#5 D5 Eb5 F7
Then a five o'clock you head ...by subway
Verse, Audrey:
Bb F Bb
Downtown, where the guys are drips.
Dm A Dm
Downtown, where they rip your slips.
Eb Bb Eb
Downtown, where relationships
Gm Eb/F Bb F Bb
Are no go - Down on skid row, (Down on skid row)
Gm D7 Gm
Down on skid row (Down on skid row)
Eb Bb Eb Cm7 F7
Down on skid row! Down on skid row! Down on skid row!
Bridge:
Gm D5 F5 Gm Eb
Poor! All my life I've always been poor.
Bb5 D5 Eb Gm
I keep asking God what I'm for,
D5 F5 Gm Dm
And he tells me "Gee, I'm not sure
Cm7 Eb/F
Sweep that floor, kid."
Cm G Cm F Gm
Oh, I started life as an orphan,
D7 Gm
A child of the street
Bb Cm G
Here on skid row
Cm F Gm Gm/F
He took me in, gave me shelter, a bed,
C7/E
Crust of bread and a job
Bb/D
Treats me like dirt,
C7 F7sus4 F7
Calls me a slob, Which I am. So I live
Verse Seymour:
Bb
Downtown, that's your home address.
Dm
You live Downtown, when your life's a mess.
Eb Gm
You live Downtown, where depressions' just Status Quo.
Eb/F Bb
Down on skid row
Bb
Someone show me a way to get outa here,
Dm
'Cause I constantly pray I'll get outa here
Eb
Please, won't somebody say I'll get outa here
Gm Eb/F
Someone gimme my shot or I'll rot here.
Ending:
Bb
(Downtown) Show me how and I will, I'll get out-a here.
Dm
(Downtown) I'll start climbin' up hill and get out-a here.
Eb
(Downtown) Someone tell me I still could get out-a here.
Gm Eb/F
Someone tell lady luck that I'm stuck here.
Bb F Bb F Bb
(Downtown) Gee it sure would be swell to get out of here
Dm A Dm A Dm
(Downtown) Bid the gutter fairwell and get out of here
Eb Bb Eb Bb Eb
(Downtown) I'd move heaven and hell to get out of skid
Gm F7sus4
(Row) I'll do I dunno what to get outta skid
F7sus4
(Downtown) but a hell of a lot to get out-a skid
F7sus4
(Downtown) people tell me there's not a way out-a skid
F7sus4 Bb
(Downtown) but believe me I gotta get out-a skid row.
Bb5 G5 F5 Bb5 G5 F5 G5 x6
Bb
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Last Updated: April 29, 2021