Little Shop Of Horrors - Skid Row Downtown chords by Soundtracks

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.


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