Woman Downstairs
The Handsome FamilyVersion1
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Chords in this song
Strum
D-DU-UDU
Chicago is where the woman downstairs
Starved herself to death last summer
(Pattern repeats throughout verses)
Her boyfriend Ted ate hotdogs and wept
With the grey rats out on the fire escape
In a thrift store chair I drank cases of beer
And dreamed of lying down on the L-tracks
The trains roared by under smoke grey skies
Lake Michigan rose and fell like a bird
And when the wind screamed up Ashland Avenue
The corner bars were full by noon
And the old stewbums sliding down their stools
Ate boiled eggs and fed beer to their dogs
The woman downstairs lost all her hair
And wore a beret in the laundry room
I borrowed her soap and bought her a coke
But she left it on the dryer
She died in June weighing 82
Her boyfriend went back to New York
The cops wandered through her dusty rooms
One of them stole her TV
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Readable chord sheet for Woman Downstairs by The Handsome Family
[Em]Chicago is [C]where the [D]woman down[G]stairs [Am]Starved herself to [B7]death last [Em]summer (Pattern repeats throughout verses) Her boyfriend Ted ate hotdogs and wept With the grey rats out on the fire escape In a thrift store chair I drank cases of beer And dreamed of lying down on the L-tracks The trains roared by under smoke grey skies Lake Michigan rose and fell like a bird And when the [C]wind [D]screamed up Ashland [G]Avenue The [C]corner bars were [D]full by [G]noon And the [C]old stewbums [D]sliding down their [G]stools [Am]Ate boiled eggs and [B7]fed beer to their [Em]dogs The woman downstairs lost all her hair And wore a beret in the laundry room I borrowed her soap and bought her a coke But she left it on the dryer She died in June weighing 82 Her boyfriend went back to New York The cops wandered through her dusty rooms One of them stole her TV