Lirik dan Chord Lagu Kentucky Avenue - Tom Waits

Lagu tersebut direkam di Wally Heider Studio (Hollywood) dan dimuat dalam album studio keenamnya yang bertajuk Blue Valentine.

Album yang diproduseri oleh Ryan Adams itu dirilis pada tahun 1978 melalui label Asylum Records.

Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Kentucky Avenue” dari Tom Waits.

Intro: A/C#, D 

A/C#                        D
Eddie Grace's buick got four bullet holes in the side
A/C#                                                       D             E7
Charley Delisle is sittin' at the top of an avocado tree
A/C#                                                          D
Mrs Storm will stab you with a steak knife if you step on her lawn
A/C#                                                         D            E7
I got a half a pack of lucky strikes man, so come along with me
A/C#                         D
Let's fill our pockets with macadamia nuts
A/C#                                                          D              E7
And go over to Bobby Goodmanson's and jump off the roof

A/C#                                         D
Hilda plays strip poker when her mama's across the street
A/C#                                          D                E7
Joey Navinsky says she put her tongue in his mouth
A/C#                                               D            C#7
Dicky Faulkner's got a switchblade and some gooseneck risers
F#m7                        B11                         Bm7               E7
That eucalyptus is a hunchback, there's a wind down from the south
A/C#                                                 D
So let me tie you up with kite string, I'll show you the scabs on my knee
A/C#
Watch out for the broken glass, put your shoes and socks on,
D                  E7
and come along with me

A/C#                                    D
Let's follow that fire truck, I think your house is burning down
A/C#                                                             D                  E7
Then go down to the hobo jungle and kill some rattlesnakes with a trowel
A/C#                                            D
And we'll break all the windows in the old Anderson place
A/C#                                                      D                   E7
We'll steal a bunch of boysenberries and smear 'em on your face
A/C#                                                     D
I'll get a dollar from my mama's purse, buy that skull and crossbones ring
A/C#                                           D                   E7
And you can wear it round your neck on an old piece of string

A/C#                                          D
Then we'll spit on Ronnie Arnold and flip him the bird
A/C#                                             D              E7
Slash the tires on the school bus, now don't say a word
A/C#                                    D
I'll take a rusty nail, scratch your initials in my arm
A/C#                                                  D           E7
I'll show you how to sneak up on the roof of the drugstore

A/C#                                                      D
I'll take the spokes from your wheelchair, and a magpie's wings
A/C#                            D                      E7
And I'll tie 'em to your shoulders and your feet
A/C#                                            D
I'll steal a hacksaw from my dad, cut the braces off your legs
A/C#                                     D                 E7
And we'll bury them tonight out in the cornfield

A/C#
Just put a church key in your pocket
D
We'll hop that freight train in the hall
A/C#                                          D
We'll slide all the way down the drain
E7                            A/C#
To New Orleans in the fall

D A/C# D A/C# D A/C#
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