Whistling Past The Graveyard chords by Tom Waits

Chords with lyrics

(Guitar)
[Verse]
      B minorBm
BB|----------3--|
G+G|----------4--|
D MajorD|----------4--| (Repeat this pattern 7 times one for each lyric line)
A augmentedA|--------2-2--|
E MajorE|2-4-2-4------|

(and on the 8th time it goes up to the Chorus like so)
e|----------------------------|
BB|----------------------------|
G+G|----------------------------|
D MajorD|----------------------2-2---|
A augmentedA|--------2-2-4-4-4-5-5-------|
E MajorE|2-4-2-4---------------------|

  G7G7        F#7F#7        G7G7        F#7F#7
e|------------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|------------------------------------------------------------------|
G+G|------------------------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|-------------2-----------------1-----------------2----------------|
A augmentedA|-----2-2-5--5-5-2------1-1-4--4-4-1------2-2-5--5-5-2------1-1-4--|
E MajorE|-3-3---------------2-2---------------3-3---------------2-2--------|

(And back to the B minorBm verse pattern shown above)

(All this fits beautifully with this bass pattern)

[Verse]
G+G|-----4--4-----------|
D MajorD|----------4--4------|
A augmentedA|-2-------------5--5-|
E MajorE|--------------------|

[Chorus]
  G7G7          F#7F#7
G+G|---------------------|---------------------|
D MajorD|-5--5----------------|---------------------|
A augmentedA|------5--5-2--2------|-----------1--1------|
E MajorE|----------------3--3-|-2--2-4--4------2--2-|

  G7G7          F#7F#7      B minorBm (back to pattern)
G+G|------------------?---|----------------------------|
D MajorD|----------------5-23--|-4--4-----------------------|
A augmentedA|------2--2-5--5-------|------4--4--------0---0---2-|
E MajorE|-3--3-----------------|-----------2----2---2-------|

[Verse 1]
B minorBm                  B minorBm
  Well I come in on a night train    With an arm full of box cars
B minorBm                  B minorBm
  On the wings of a magpie       Cross a hooligan night
B minorBm                  B minorBm
  And I busted up a chifforobe     Way out by the cocomo
B minorBm                  B minorBm
  Cooked up a mess a mulligan      And got into a fight

[Chorus]
G7G7                F#7F#7
Whistlin' past the graveyard  Steppin on a crack
   G7G7               F#7F#7
I'm a mean motherhubbard    Papa one-eyed jack

[Verse 2]
B minorBm                  B minorBm
  You've probably seen me sleepin   Out by the railroad tracks
B minorBm                    B minorBm
  Go on and ask the prince of darkness  What about all that smoke come from the stack
B minorBm                  B minorBm
  Sometimes I kill myself a jacket  suck out all the blood
B minorBm                  B minorBm
  Steal myself a station wagon    Drive it through the mud

[Chorus]
G7G7                F#7F#7
Whistlin' past the graveyard  Steppin on a crack
   G7G7               F#7F#7
I'm a mean motherhubbard    Papa one-eyed jack

[Verse 3]
B minorBm                  B minorBm
  I know you seen my headlights    And the honkin' of my horn
B minorBm                  B minorBm
  I'm callin' out my bloodhounds   Chase the devil through the corn
B minorBm                    B minorBm
  Last night I chugged the Mississippi  Now that sucker's dry as a bone
B minorBm               B minorBm
  Born in a taxi cab   I'm never comin' home

[Chorus]
G7G7                F#7F#7
Whistlin' past the graveyard  Steppin on a crack
   G7G7               F#7F#7
I'm a mean motherhubbard    Papa one-eyed jack

[Verse 4]
B minorBm                  B minorBm
  My eyes have seen the glory     Of the draining of the ditch
B minorBm                  B minorBm
  I only come to baton rouge     To find myself a witch
B minorBm                      B minorBm
  I'm-ona snatch me up a couple of 'em     every time it rains
B minorBm                  B minorBm
  You see a locomotive prob'ly   thinkin' it's a train

[Chorus]
G7G7                F#7F#7
Whistlin' past the graveyard  Steppin on a crack
   G7G7               F#7F#7
I'm a mean motherhubbard    Papa one-eyed jack

[Verse 5]
B minorBm                  B minorBm
  What you think is the sunshine   Is just a twinkle in my eye
B minorBm                       B minorBm
  That ring around my fingers  it's just the 4th of July
B minorBm                      B minorBm
  When I get a little bit lonesome  And a tear falls from my cheek
B minorBm                  B minorBm
  There's gonna be an ocean in the mid - dle of the week

[Chorus]
G7G7                F#7F#7
Whistlin' past the graveyard  Steppin on a crack
   G7G7               F#7F#7
I'm a mean motherhubbard    Papa one-eyed jack

[Verse 6]
B minorBm                  B minorBm
  I rode into town on a night train  with an arm full of box cars
B minorBm                  B minorBm
  On the wings of a magpie      cross a hooligan night
B minorBm                  B minorBm
  I'ma tear me off a rainbow and wear it for a tie
B minorBm                    B minorBm
  I never told the truth   so I can never tell a lie

[Chorus]
G7G7                F#7F#7
Whistlin' past the graveyard  Steppin on a crack
   G7G7               F#7F#7