Intro: G / Dm C /G
G G7
Spent my nights in a sleeping bag smelling kerosene
C
thinking fog and sand
Am
was gonna keep me clean
G G7
feeding all the bluejays at the wrong address
C
where they went instead
Am
I could only guess
G
Tell the barfly
Dm
who runs this town
Bb
you won’t get high
C
you’ll just get down
G
tell the barfly
Dm
it’s on his dime
Bb
you won’t get high
C
so do the time
G / Dm C /G
Took a breath full of iodine and I overdosed
and the tide crept high
like a watery ghost
and no one needs your kind
of a dope sick clown
you can always find
sitting one seat down
Tell the barfly
who rolls the dice
your numbers up
so roll it twice
tell the barfly
it’s on his dime
you won’t get high
so do the time
G / Dm C /G
Am G D
Honey, I’m not the one who’s of use to you now
Am
I get an hour’s sleep at night
G D
and I can’t see how
D Am
you deserve all the mess that even guilt won’t allow
instr. like chorus
Tell the barfly
who runs this town
you won’t get high
you’ll just get down
tell the barfly
it’s on his dime
you won’t get high
so do the time