On The Dark Streets Below Chords

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AmSlow down, liDmttle girl

 You've lost your wGay in this wAmorld

 Slow dAmown and start aDmgain

 You'll feel much bEetter in the Amend

[Enter trumpets] Am

 "Annie's Amalways been a live one," says the matroness

 She nAmever cries, she never lets her sorrows get the best of her

 She mDmakes a kind of music of the buttons popping off her dress

 She kEnows it's just the way it goes on the dark streets beAmlow.

 [Trumpets] Am

 AAmdele came from a decent town, scraped by for her first month's rent

 GAmuessed with her brains she could find a job in management

 She sDmhowed promise in algebra but now her talent's spent

 Counting oEther people's dough on the dark... streets below!

 [More trumpets] Am Dm Am E Am

 So Dmget up kid, you're Amnot licked yet!

 I Enever knew a time when you wouldn't take a bet

 SlEooooooooow Amdown, little Dmgirl

 You've lGost your way Amin this world

 Slow dAmown and start aDmgain

 You'll fGeel much better Amin the end

AmAugust's from the old country, came over on a ship

 It was Amlike a floating oil drum, it barely made the trip

 She Dmknew that she'd been screwed as soon as she pulled up to the spit

 Now she kEnows it's girls like her who compose the dark streets beAmlow

 These folks got Enowhere left to go but the dark streets beAmlow E

 The dark streets belAmow E

 The dark streets belAmow E

 The dark streets belAmow E

 The dark streets belAmow!