PONY       TOM WAITS

Capo on 1st 

intro :C  F  C  F      C 

  C               F
I've seen it all boys
F             C
I've been all over
C           F
Been everywhere in the 
F             G
Whole wide world
G           F
I rode the high line
F               C
With old blind Darby
C              F
I danced real slow
     F    G
With Ida Jane
   
               F
I was full of wonder
                 C
When I left Murfreesboro
                  F
Now I am full of hollow
   F         G
On Maxwell street...

              F
And I hope my Pony
           C   C/B    Am
I hope my Pony
           C
I hope my Pony
          G         C
Knows the way back home
   
               F
I walked from Natchez
          C
To Hushpukena
          F
built a fire by the side
        G
Of the road
              F
I worked for nothin in a 
        C
Belzoni saw mill. I caught a
F                       G
Blind out on the B and O
             F               C
Talullah's friendly Belzoni ain't so 
   F             G
A 44'll get you 99

               F   
And I hope my Pony
           C    C/B     Am
I hope my Pony
           C
I hope my Pony
           G        C
Knows the way back home
   

          F                    C
I run my race with burnt face Jake
            F          G
Gave him a Manzanita cross
            F
I lived on nothin
                 C
But dreams and train smoke
C           F
Somehow my watch and chain
     G
Got lost.
              F                 C
I wish I was home in Evelyn's Kitchen
          F                    G
With old Gyp curled around my feet 

(Chorus)