Little Shop Of Horrors - Skid Row Downtown chords by Soundtracks

Intro:
 Bb                 Gm
Alarm goes off at seven and you start uptown.

   Dm                 Cm7         F7    Bb    Bb  F/A   Gm
You put in your eight hours for the powers that have always been.

 Gm         Cm7    Eb/F
Till it's five P.M.,   ... N.C.Then you go



Verse:
 Bb     F       Bb
Downtown, where the folks are broke.

    Dm     A       Dm
You go Downtown, where your life's a joke.

    Eb     Bb       Eb
You go Downtown,  when you buy your token,

   Gm   Eb/F          Bb   F
You go,   home to skid row

 Bb       Gm   Eb/F
Home to skid row   ...N.C.yes, you go


 Bb      F      Bb
Downtown, where the cabs don't stop

 Dm      A      Dm
Downtown, where the food is slop

 Eb      Bb      Eb
Downtown, where the hop-heads flop

    Gm    Eb/F          Bb   F  Bb
In the snow -  Down on Skid Row



Chorus:
 Ebmaj
Uptown you cater to a million jerks.

 Gm
Uptown you're messengers and mailroom clerks

 Cm
Eating all your lunches at the hot dog carts.

   F7
The bosses take your money and they break your hearts.


 Ebmaj
Uptown you cater to a million whores.

   Gm
You disinfect terrazzo on their bathroom floors.

   Cm
Your job is really menial and you make no bread

 C5    C#5    D5    Eb5   F7
Then a five o'clock you head ...by subway



Verse, Audrey:
 Bb      F      Bb
Downtown, where the guys are drips.

 Dm      A      Dm
Downtown, where they rip your slips.

 Eb      Bb     Eb
Downtown, where relationships

    Gm   Eb/F          Bb        F   Bb
Are no go  -   Down on skid row, (Down on skid row)

        Gm       D7   Gm
Down on skid row (Down on skid row)

       Eb       Bb   Eb          Cm7    F7
Down on skid row! Down on skid row! Down on skid row!



Bridge:
 Gm    D5   F5   Gm           Eb
Poor! All my life I've always been poor.

 Bb5   D5   Eb           Gm
I  keep asking God what I'm for,

 D5   F5   Gm            Dm
And he tells me "Gee, I'm not sure

 Cm7      Eb/F
Sweep that floor, kid."

 Cm   G  Cm          F  Gm
Oh,   I started life as an orphan,

      D7   Gm
A child of the street

     Bb   Cm   G
Here on skid row

 Cm          F   Gm      Gm/F
He took me in, gave me shelter, a bed,

     C7/E
Crust of bread and a job

 Bb/D
Treats me like dirt,

 C7             F7sus4     F7
Calls me a slob, Which I am.    So I live



Verse Seymour:
 Bb
Downtown, that's your home address.

     Dm
You live Downtown, when your life's a mess.

     Eb                 Gm
You live Downtown, where depressions' just Status Quo.

 Eb/F       Bb
Down on skid row


 Bb
Someone show me a way to get outa here,

 Dm
 'Cause I constantly pray I'll get outa here

 Eb
  Please, won't somebody say I'll get outa here

 Gm         Eb/F
Someone gimme my shot or I'll rot here.



Ending:
 Bb
(Downtown) Show me how and I will, I'll get out-a here.

 Dm
(Downtown) I'll start climbin' up hill and get out-a here.

 Eb
(Downtown) Someone tell me I still could get out-a here.

 Gm          Eb/F
Someone tell lady luck that I'm stuck here.


 Bb          F        Bb       F    Bb
(Downtown) Gee it sure would be swell to get out of here

 Dm          A       Dm       A    Dm
(Downtown) Bid the gutter fairwell and get out of here

 Eb           Bb      Eb       Bb    Eb
(Downtown) I'd move heaven and hell to get out of skid

 Gm            F7sus4
(Row) I'll do I dunno what to get outta skid

 F7sus4
(Downtown) but a hell of a lot to get out-a skid

 F7sus4
(Downtown) people tell me there's not a way out-a skid

 F7sus4                         Bb
(Downtown) but believe me I gotta get out-a skid row.


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