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[Intro 1]
[D]

[Verse 1]
[D]I was a poor little kid in the
lungs of new York

[Verse 2]
Just like a motherless son of a [D]bitch
Loaded on ephedrine looking
for downers and coke
Like a sun that just wouldn't
set out on the horizon
Singing and [G]dancing to them
nighttime song[D]s

[Verse 3]
[D]I took a train and came up from Carolina
I was looking for something to do
Nothing I found could ever
quite occupy me
With nothing to gain there's
always nothing to lose
Singing and [G]dancing to
them nighttime [D]songs
Cry me a [G]river till the morn
[D]ing comes

[Verse 4]
[D]I should've died a hundred
thousand [G]times
[D]Teetering stoned off the
side of buildings
Nobody loved me and nobody even tried
You cant hang [Dm]on to something
that [D]wont stop moving
Singing and [G]dancing to them
night[D]time songs

[Verse 5]
[D]I got arrested down south
for hitting a clerk
I spit in his face, the bastard knocked me out
[G]He lee[D]red at my lady and
then he touched her face
Thank God she had the
money to bail me out
Singing and [G]dancing to them
nighttime song[D]s
Cry me a [G]river till the [D]morning comes

[Verse 6]
[D]Bar room boogie just like in the movies
Go on put it to me shake it
[Dm]till the rattles [G]come on

[Interlude 2]
Take me where the morning don't come
[D]

[Verse 7]
[D]I had a dog named Jet, when I was a kid
Until one day he wandered off and died
One night I went in the yard
and dug him up
And he laid in the box just
like a pile of bones
Singing and [G]dancing to
them night[D]time songs

[Verse 8]
[D]
I used to get loaded and baby
Id drive your car
It seemed like there was always a cop
Coming behind me and following
close as they could
Eventually they'd just trail off
Loaded and [G]cruising to
them nighttime [D]songs
Cry me a [G]river till the morning [D]comes

[Verse 9]
Bar room boogie just like in the movies
Go on put it to me shake it
[G]till the [F]rattles [G]come on
Take me where the morning

[Interlude 3]
don't come
[D]

[Verse 10]
[D]I think I died a hundred thousand times
Mixing liquor with mystery pills
Mystery pills and heroin
mixed into cocaine
Face down out on the riverside
Most of my friends are married
and making them babies
To most of them I already died
And whatever it is about
you I've always hated
Is something about myself I
just couldn't hide
And I'm going [G]go ing baby [D]I'm gone

[Verse 11]
[D]
So cry me a river to the [G]other
side of [D]the [G]morning[D]
[G]To [D]whe[G]re [D]the morning
[G]don[D]'t [G]come[D]
To where the [F]morn[G][D]
ing [G]don't [D]come
To where the morning [G]don't come

[Outro 1]
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