Downtown Train - Heartwood Guitar Instruction



Downtown Train

Tom Waits

Note: The key of the original recording is somewhere between D and Eb--instruments were not tuned to concert pitch (or the studio's tape machine was off-speed). This version is a little higher, in the key of E.

Use power chords with palm-mute throughout.

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Strum: D D D D D D D D

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

Intro: / E - - - / A - B - / x2

E A (½) B (½)

Outside another yellow moon

E A (½) B (½)

Has punched a hole in the nighttime

E A (½) B (½)

I climb through the window and down to the street

E A (½) B (½)

I'm shining like a new dime

A B

The downtown trains are full

A B

With all those Brooklyn girls

C#m B

They try so hard to break out of their little world

E A (½) B (½)

You wave your hand and they scatter like crows

E A (½) B (½)

They have nothing that will ever capture

E A (½) B (½)

your heart. They're just thorns without the rose

E A (½) B (½)

Be careful of them in the dark

A B

And if I was the one

A B

You chose to be your only one

C#m B

Oh baby now, can't you hear me now

Chorus:

E A

Will I see you tonight

E A

on a downtown train

E A

Where every night is just the same

F#m B

You leave me lonely now

E A (½) B (½)

I know your window and I know it's late

E A (½) B (½)

I know your stairs and your doorway

E A (½) B (½)

I walk down your street and past your gate

E A (½) B (½)

I stand by the light at the four-way

A B

You watch them as they fall

A B

Oh baby, and they all have heart attacks

C#m B

They stay at the carnival, but they'll never win you back

Chorus

E A

Will I see you tonight

E A

on a downtown train

E A

Where all of my dreams, they fall like rain

F#m B

Oh baby, on a downtown train

Instrumental (uses three-over-four rhythm):

/ E - B - / E - B - / E - A - / B - - - /

/ E - B - / E - B - / E - A - / B - - - / Bsus4 - - - /

Chorus (don't sing last line)

E A

Will I see you tonight

E A

on a downtown train

E A

Where all of my dreams, they fall like rain

F#m B

on a downtown train

E A (½) B (½)

on a downtown train

E A (½) B (½)

on a downtown train

E A (½) B (½)

on a downtown train

End on E

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