Altar Boy chords by Tom Waits

Chords with lyrics

Verse 1:

Eb MajorEb     AbAb
  He's an ol' altar boy

 BbmBbm      Eb7Eb7
  Lying out there in the street

AbAb       F7F7     BbM7Bbm7
  He's an ol' altar boy

Eb MajorEb     Db7Db7          Gb7Gb7
  Bound up in leather and chains

C minorCm    F7F7         BbM7Bbm7
  That's why I'm feeling so blue

  Eb7Eb7       AbAb
  I'm an old altar boy

 F7F7       Bb majorBb
  What about you?

Verse 2:

 Eb7Eb7        AbAb
  Now, I can order in Latin

 F7F7      BbM7Bbm7     Eb7Eb7
  Make 'em au gratin, Joe

  AbAb
  I'm an old altar boy

FF     BbM7Bbm7     Eb7Eb7
  That's why I'm so depressed

   Db7Db7      Gb7Gb7
  I never got the rest of the dream

Cm7Cm7       F7F7
  Just the ritual

    BbM7Bbm7   Eb MajorEb
  Now I'm habitual

   AbAb      F7F7        BbM7Bbm7
  Majoring in crimes that are unspeakable

 Eb7Eb7         AbAb
  Cause I'm an old altar boy

 F7F7          BbM7Bbm7
  That's what happened to me

Verse 3:

Eb7Eb7    AbAb       F7F7
  I'm an old altar boy

    BbM7Bbm7        Eb7Eb7          DbDb
  He's hoping he can meet   a woman dressed like a nun

  Gb7Gb7        Cm7Cm7       F7F7
  He knows there's got to be some around here

  Bb7Bb7          Eb7Eb7
  Drinking across from the church

   AbAb        FF
  A augmentedA little Father Cribari wine

BbmBbm    Eb7Eb7    AbAb
  On a Sunday morn' time


Verse 4:

DbDb      GbGb
  I'm an old altar boy

C minorCm   F7F7      Bb7Bb7
  Why is he winking at this time in his life?

 Eb7Eb7        AbAb         F7F7
  He never took a wife, cause he's an old altar boy

  BbmBbm  Eb MajorEb
  Oh, yeah...

       AbAb
  What about you?