Verse 1:

Em (022000@1)       C (x32010@1)       D (xx0232@1)       GChicago (320003@1)is where the woman downstairs

Am (x02210@1)               B7 (x21202@1)       EmStarved (022000@1)herself to death last summer

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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 (x32010@1)  D (xx0232@1)                 GAnd (320003@1)when the wind screamed up Ashland Avenue

    C (x32010@1)              D (xx0232@1)     GThe (320003@1)corner bars were full by noon

        C (x32010@1)          D (xx0232@1)                GAnd (320003@1)the old stewbums sliding down their stools

Am (x02210@1)                B7 (x21202@1)              EmAte (022000@1)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