Time Chords

Song originally by Tom Waits
Capo 3 for Heidi Talbot
From the album "In Love + Light"
 
[Intro]
| D A7 |
 
[Verse 1]
     D                -                -              -
↓The smart money's on Harlow   And the moon is in the street
    G               A7               D    -
The shadow boys are breaking all the laws
           G                  A7             D              -
And you're east of East Saint Louis, and the wind is making speeches
        G                  -        A7       -
And the rain sounds like a round of applause
 
 D           -                -          -
↓Napoleon is weeping   In the carnival saloon
      G         A7            D      -
His invisible fiancé’s in the mirror
        G             A7                 D                     -
And the band is going home, it's raining hammers, it's raining nails
     G                    -         A7       -
It's true there's nothing left, for him down here
 
[Chorus]
         D     A7    D    -
And it's time, time, time
         G     D     A7   -
And it's time, time, time
         D     F#m   G              Em
And it's time, time, time, that you love
         D     A7    D    -
And it's time, time, time
 
[Verse 2]
          D                   -                  -               -
↓And they all pretend they're orphans, and their memories like a train
        G              A7                   D   -
You can see it getting smaller as it pulls away
        G                  A7               D                   -
And the things you can't remember, tell the things you can't forget
     G              -              A7    -
That history puts a Saint in every dream
 
          D                  -                 -              -
↓Well she said she'd stick a round, until the  bandages came  off
          G                A7                 D    -
But these mama's boys just don't know when to quit
       G                 A7              D                    -
And Matilda asks the sailors, “Are those dreams or are those  prayers?”
    G                -                  A7     -
So, close your eyes, son and this won't hurt a bit
 
[Chorus]
         D     A7    D    -
And it's time, time, time
         G     D     A7   -
And it's time, time, time
         D     F#m   G              Em
And it's time, time, time, that you love
         D     A7    D    -
And it's time, time, time
 
 
[Verse 3]
      D                 -            -        -
↓Well things are pretty lousy, for a calendar girl
    G                        A7                  D               -
The boys just dive right     off the cars and    splash into the street
    G                 A7                D              -
And when they're on a roll, She pulls a razor from her boot
      G                -               A7   -
And a thousand pigeons fall around her feet
 
          D             -             -             -
↓So put a candle in the window, and a kiss upon his lips
       G                A7                D    -
As the dish outside the window fills with rain
G            A7                 D             -
 Just like a stranger, with the weeds in your heart
    G               -           A7        -
And pay the fiddler off 'till I come back again
 
[Chorus]
         D     A7    D    -
And it's time, time, time
         G     D     A7   -
And it's time, time, time
         D     F#m   G              Em
And it's time, time, time, that you love
         D     A7    D    -
And it's time, time, time
 
( - REPEAT!)
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