Ghosts Of Saturday Night chords by Tom Waits

Chords with lyrics

Each Bb7Bb7 is actually a Bb7/6, if you're a musician...you know what this means.

Bb7Bb7     Eb9Eb9
A augmentedA cab combs the snake,
Bb7Bb7     Eb9Eb9
Tryin' to rake in that last night's fare,
Bb7Bb7
And a solitary sailor
            Am7Am7         D7D7
Who spends the facts of his life like small change on strangers...

Bb7Bb7                Eb9Eb9
Paws his inside P-coat pocket for a welcome twenty-five cents,
Bb7Bb7                Eb9Eb9
And the last bent butt from a package of Kents,
Bb7Bb7
As he dreams of a waitress with Maxwell House eyes
         Am7Am7          D7D7
And marmalade thighs with scrambled yellow hair.

Bb7Bb7                Eb9Eb9
Her rhinestone-studded moniker says, "Irene"
Bb7Bb7                Eb9Eb9    Bb7Bb7
As she wipes the wisps of dishwater blonde from her eyes
Am7Am7 D7D7

Bb7Bb7          Eb9Eb9
And the Texaco beacon burns on,
Bb7Bb7          Eb9Eb9             Bb7Bb7
The steel-belted attendant with a 'Ring and Valve Special'...
            Am7Am7
Cryin' "Fill'er up and check that oil"
                       D7D7
"You know it could be a distributor and it could be a coil."

Bb7Bb7                 Eb9Eb9
The early mornin' final edition's on the stands,
Bb7Bb7                   Eb9Eb9
And that town cryer's cryin' there with nickels in his hands.
Bb7Bb7          Am7Am7  D7D7
Pigs in a blanket sixty-nine cents,
Bb7Bb7                 Eb9Eb9
Eggs - roll 'em over and a package of Kents,
Bb7Bb7                 Eb9Eb9  Bb7Bb7
Adam and Eve on a log, you can sink 'em damn straight,
Am7Am7              D7D7
Hash browns, hash browns, you know I can't be late.

Bb7Bb7                 Eb9Eb9
And the early dawn cracks out a carpet of diamond
Bb7Bb7                 Eb9Eb9
Across a cash crop car lot filled with twilight Coupe Devilles,
         Am7Am7
Leaving the town in a-keeping
            D7D7
Of the one who is sweeping
      Bb7Bb7      Eb9Eb9  Outro