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Woman Downstairs

The Handsome Family

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Verse 1: Em C D G Chicago is where the woman downstairs Am B7 Em 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 Chorus: C D G And when the wind screamed up Ashland Avenue C D G The corner bars were full by noon C D G And the old stewbums sliding down their stools Am B7 Em Ate boiled eggs and fed beer to their dogs Verse 2: 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 Chorus
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