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)