Poverty Train

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 Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 14:49:43 -0500 
 From: Andrew Rogers  
  
   
 Subject: ./n/nyro_laura/poverty_train.crd 
  
                             "Poverty Train" 
                               (Laura Nyro) 
  
 Intro (guitars): 
  
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 	[fuzz]	      [acoustic]           [bass] 
  
 	Last call for the poverty train 
  
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 	 [acoustic] 
  
 	Abmaj7 (vibes - there's a high D on acoustic bass in there) 
 	Last call for the poverty train 
  
 	piano (transcribed, admittedly an octave lower, for guitar) [2X]: 
  
 	 C                          Gm7 
 	 v   v   v     v   v   v     v   v   v     v   v   v 
 	-0-----------|-0-----------|-------------|-------------| 
 	-1-----------|-1-------1---|-3-----------|-3-----------| 
 	-0-----------|-0-------0---|-2h3-----2---|-0-----------| 
 	-------------|-------------|-------------|---------3---| 
 	-3-----------|-------------|-------------|-------------| 
 	-------------|-------------|-3-----------|-------------| 
  
 	F/Bb                        F/A 
 	 v   v   v     v   v   v     v   v   v     v   v   v 
 	-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------| 
 	-1-----------|-1-----------|-1-----------|-1-----------| 
 	-2-----------|-2-----------|-2-----------|-2-----------| 
 	-3-------3---|---------3---|-3-------3---|---------3---| 
 	-1-----------|-------------|-0-----------|-------------| 
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 Verse 1: 
  
 	    C             Gm/C     F/Bb        F/A 
 	It looks good and dirty on shiny light strip 
 	            C        Gm/C         F/Bb       F/A 
 	And if you don't get beat you got yourself a trip 
 	       Eb/Ab          Dm7            Eb/Ab          Dm7 
 	You can see the walls roar, see your brains on the floor 
 	      Eb/Ab         Dm7           Eb/Ab      Gm7 
 	Become God, become cripple, become funky and split 
 	          Fm7 
 	Why was I born 
 	                                          F/G   G 
 	No-no-no-no  whoa-oh no-no-no-no no no no, no 
  
 Verse 2: 
  
 	Oh baby, I just saw the Devil and he's smilin' at me 
 	I heard my bones cry, Devil why's it got to be 
 	Devil played with my brother, Devil drove my mother 
 	Now the tears in the gutter are floodin' the sea 
 	Why was I born 
 	No-no-no-no  whoa-oh no-no-no-no no no no, no 
  
 Verse 3: 
  
 	Oh baby, it looks good and dirty, them shiny lights glow 
 	A million night tramps, tricks and tracks will come and go 
 	Eb/Ab            Dm7 
 	You're starvin' today 
 	   Fmaj7 Em7  Fmaj7 
 	But who cares anyway 
 	F/G        C            Gm7/C Abmaj7 Gm7 Cm7 
 	Baby, it feels like I'm dyin'   now 
  
 Coda: 
  
 	I swear there's something better than 
 	Abmaj7 (vibes) 
 	Getting off on sweet cocaine 
 	[C]					[single note] 
 	It feels so good 
 	Absus2 [468xxx]         Dbsus4 [xxx674] 
 	       It feels so good 
 	                               [G] [F] 
 	Gettin' off the poverty train 
 	Gm7/C 
 	Mornin'... 
  
  
 -- another ace 60's tab from Andrew Rogers