Tonart: Bb major
Verse 1
G
Em
G
Alarm goes off at seven
Em
G
And you start uptown
Bm
G
You put in your eight hours
Am
For the powers that have
D
G
D
Em
always been
Till it's five P.M.
Am
D
G
Then you go
D
Downtown
G
Where the folks are broke
Bm
F#
You go Downtown
Bm
Where your life's a joke
C
G
You go Downtown
C
When you buy your token
D
Em
D
You go
G
D
G
Home to Skid Row
Yes, you go
G
D
Downtown
G
D
G
Where the cabs don't stop
Bm
Downtown
Where the food is slop
C
G
Downtown
C
Where the hop- heads flop
D
Em
D
In the snow
G
D
G
Down on Skid Row
C
G
C
Uptown you cater to a million jerks
Em
Bm
Uptown you're messengers and
Am
Em
Eating all your lunches at the
D
The bosses take your money
Am
D
And they break your hearts
C
G
C
Uptown you cater to a million whores
G
Em
Bm
You disinfect terrazzo on their
Am
Your morning's tribulation
Em
Am
Afternoon's a curse
Em
Am
Bm
D
And five o'clock is even worse
That's when you go
G
D
Downtown
G
Where the guys are drips
Bm
Downtown
F#
Bm
Where they rip your slips
C
G
Downtown
C
D
Em
D
Where relationships are no go
G
D
G
D
Em
Down on Skid Row!
Bm
Em
C
(Down on Skid
G
C
Row)
D
Em
(Down on Skid Row!)
C
Poor! All my life I've always been poor
Em
I keep asking God what I'm for
Bm
D
And he tells me "Gee, I'm not sure
A
Dsus4
D
Sweep that floor, kid"
Am
Em
Oh, I started life as an orphan
A child of the street
Em
He took me in, gave me shelter, a bed
Eb
Crust of bread and a job
G
A
Treats me like dirt, calls me a slob
Dsus4
D
Which I am
So I live
That's your home address
Downtown
When your life's a mess
Ya live
C
Downtown
Where depressions' jes'
Em
D
Status Quo
Someone show me a way to
'Cause I constantly pray I'll get
Please, won't somebody say I'll get
Outta here
Em
D
Someone gimme my shot or I'll
Rot here
Show me how and I will,
I'll get outta here
'cause it's dangerous
I'll start climbing up hill and
get outta here
Downtown,
C
where the rainbow's just a no- show!
Someone tell me I still could
that I'm stuck here
When you live
G
D
Downtown, where the sun don't shine
Gee it sure would be swell
Bm
Downtown, past the bottom line
Bid the gutter farewell and
get outta here
C
Downtown, go ask any wino, he'll know
G
C
I'd move heaven and he'll
to get outta skid
Em
Downtown
D
I'd do I dunno what to get outta skid
D
But a hell of a lot to get outta skid
Downtown
Dsus4
D
People tell me there's not
a way outta skid
Downtown
But believe me I gotta get outta skid
G
Row!
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