The French Inhaler chords by Warren Zevon

Chords with lyrics

(For the "Preludes" demo version, use a capo at the first fret.)

D MajorD  D/F#D/F#  D MajorD  D MajorD A augmentedA D MajorD  Bm7Bm7 A augmentedA A7A7

D MajorD
How're you going to make your way in the world, woman
     G+G      A augmentedA    D MajorD
When you weren't cut out for working?
     G+G      D/F#D/F#    A augmentedA
When your fingers are slender and frail?
G+G            D/F#D/F#
How're you going to get around
    G+G D/F#D/F# E minor 7Em7  D MajorD
In this sleazy  bedroom town
    G+G       D/F#D/F#    Asus4Asus4  A augmentedA
If you don't put yourself up for sale?

G+G              F#m7F#m7        D MajorD
Where will you go with your scarves and your miracles?
G+G      D/F#D/F#     A augmentedA
Who's gonna know who you are?
G+G         D/F#D/F#
Drugs and wine and flattering light
     G+G           D/F#D/F#
You must try it again till you get it right
G+G        D/F#D/F#      E minorEm       Bm7Bm7  F# minorF#m F#m7F#m7
Maybe you'll end up with someone different every night

A augmentedA     G+G       D/F#D/F#  G+G D/F#D/F#
All these people with no home to go home to
    G+G  D/F#D/F#  A augmentedA     D MajorD     E minorEm
They'd all like to spend the night with you
        G+G  G+G E/G# A augmentedA
Maybe I would, too


But tell me
D MajorD
How're you going to make your way in the world, woman
     G+G      A augmentedA    D MajorD
When you weren't cut out for working
    G+G  D/F#D/F# E minorEm D MajorD  A augmentedA
And you just can't concentrate
    G+G D MajorD  A augmentedA  D MajorD  G+G
And you always show up late

  G+G        D MajorD
You said you were an actress
    G+G      D MajorD
Yes, I believe you are
G+G          D/F#D/F#
I thought you'd be a star
   D7D7        G+G
So I drank up all the money,
    G+G        D MajorD    B minorBm
Yes, I drank up all the money,
      G+G    D MajorD    A augmentedA  D MajorD  G+G
With these phonies in this Hollywood bar,
   G+G     D MajorD      A augmentedA  D MajorD  G+G
These friends of mine in this Hollywood bar

E minorEm       F#F#
Loneliness and frustration
B minorBm      A augmentedA       G+G
We both came down with an acute case
       D/F#D/F#
And when the lights came up at two
 A augmentedA
I caught a glimpse of you
     B minorBm     A augmentedA
And your face looked like something
G+G       D MajorD        G+G
Death brought with him in his suitcase

      D MajorD
Your pretty face
       G+G
It looked so wasted
        D MajorD
Another pretty face
   G+G
Devastated
A augmentedA   F#m7F#m7   D MajorD
 The French Inhaler
G+G        D MajorD
 He stamped and mailed her
G+G  D MajorD   A augmentedA  D MajorD
"So long, Norman"
D MajorD     G+G D MajorD   A augmentedA D MajorD   D MajorD E minor 7Em7 A augmentedA Asus4Asus4 A augmentedA  D MajorD
She said, "So long, Norman"