• Song:

    Fall Of Troy

  • Artist:

    Tom Waits

   I know it's not exactly right, but it's simple and
   leaves room to work out how to sing the really deep
   notes in the song. 
        Tabbed by     - flatwound -
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                             FALL OF TROY
                            (Waits/Brennan)
     C (x32010@1)     G (320003@1)    C (x32010@1)   G (320003@1)            C (x32010@1)                              F (133211@1) It's the same with men as with horses and dogs
    C (x32010@1)    G (320003@1)      C (x32010@1) Nothing wants to die
    C (x32010@1)                             F (133211@1) Ethel and james they killed in a game
        C (x32010@1)          G (320003@1) With guns too big for their hands
   C (x32010@1)                        F (133211@1) Just off Saint Charles, in no-man's land
              C (x32010@1)               G (320003@1)     C (x32010@1)   F (133211@1) And you'll have to find your own way home, boys,
          C (x32010@1)               G (320003@1)     C (x32010@1) You'll have to find your own way home

        C (x32010@1)                                  F (133211@1) The oldest was Troy, an eighteen year old boy
        C (x32010@1)      G (320003@1)          C (x32010@1) Shot dead in march, in a robbery
        C (x32010@1)                                 F (133211@1) His brothers started out, to hell and to ruin
           C (x32010@1)                 G (320003@1) Troy's killers were never, caught they say
    C (x32010@1)                     F (133211@1) Young Nick, he just went bad that day
             C (x32010@1)              G (320003@1)     C (x32010@1)   F (133211@1) Now he'll have to find his own way home, boy's,
         C (x32010@1)              G (320003@1)     C (x32010@1) He'll have to find his own way home

 G (320003@1)               C (x32010@1)              G (320003@1)                 C (x32010@1) Why cook dinner,  why make my bed,  why come home, at all
   F (133211@1)               C (x32010@1)        Am (x02210@1) Out the door and through the woods,
             C (x32010@1)          Am (x02210@1)   Em (022000@1)G (320003@1)  There's a world where nothing grows

        C (x32010@1)                                  F (133211@1) It's hard to say grace, and to sit in the place
               C (x32010@1)   G (320003@1)     C (x32010@1)  G (320003@1) Of someone missing at the table
         C (x32010@1)                                    F (133211@1) Mom's hair sprayed tight and her face in her hands
     C (x32010@1)             G (320003@1) Watching T.V. for answers to me
    C (x32010@1)                  F (133211@1) After all she's only human 
              C (x32010@1)               G (320003@1)     C (x32010@1)   F (133211@1) And she's trying to find her own way home, boy's
          C (x32010@1)               G (320003@1)     C (x32010@1) She's trying to find her own way home

 C (x32010@1)       G (320003@1)      C (x32010@1)      F (133211@1)       C (x32010@1)     G (320003@1)      Am (x02210@1) My legs ache, my heart is sore, the well is full of pennies

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