Intro: Am Ab C C C C 
 
                C                                       G C       (add Bb ) 
The used to call it Sin City, now its gone way past that; 
F                                       Am G               (add B ) 
Painting the town and then burning it down, now even that's old hat. 
                        C                             Em 
Now there's a chior of angels at the fall of Rome, 
G                       C               F                       Am 
Singing "Ave Maria" or "Home Sweet Home", 
                 C                              Em        Am G 
It's just a heathen town, I hear only evil as my tounge gets tightened; 
     F                  Am                 G 
I used to be God fearing, now I'm , I'm so frightened. 
                 F                              Am              Am Ab              C 
'Cause the Devil will drag you under by the short tail fin of your Checker cab, 
        G                                       G/B                     C 
and I can't sit down, I'm going overboard, in this heathen town. 
                C                                       G C      (add Bb ) 
It starts out as a flirtation and ends up as an expensive habit. 
        F                                               Am G                   (add B ) 
With one eye on a place and that's his prison and the other one on a girl dressed as rabbit. 
                     C                           Em 
Now you can live forever and do fits and starts, 
             G                          C                       F Am 
But the only stake you cannot raise is the one driven through your heart, 
                C                                Em      Am G 
It's just a heathen town, I hear only evil as my tounge gets tightened; 
     F                   Am                   G 
I used to be God fearing, now I'm , I'm so frightened. 
                 F                              Am              Am      Ab C 
'Cause the Devil will drag you under by the short tail fin of your Checker cab, 
        G                                     G (add                 C  
and I can't sit down, I'm going overboard, in this heathen town. 
        G                                       G (add B )               C 
and I can't sit down, I'm going overboard, in this heathen town. 
        Am   Ab      C 
In this heathen town (x4)