Judy Collins - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues


CAPO: 4th Fret



{Intro]


[Verse 1]
              
When you're lo

              
st in the rain

             
, in Juarez, a

              
nd it's Easter

      
 time too
              
When your grav

              
ity fails, and

             
 negativity do

             
n't pull you t

hrough
             
Don't put on a

              
ny airs when y

              
ou're down on 

              
Rue Morgue Ave


nue
              
They got some 

             
hungry women t

              
here and they 

             
really make a 

            
mess out of yo

u


[Verse 2]
              
If you see Sai

             
nt Annie, plea

              
se tell her th

       
anks a lot
              
I cannot move 

             
my fingers, th

              
ey are all in 

  
a knot
             
I  haven't got

              
 the strength 

              
to get up and 

             
take another s

hot
             
And my best fr

              
iend, the doct

             
or, won't even

              
 say what it i

       
s I've got


[Verse 3]
              
Sweet Melinda,

             
 the peasants 

              
call her the g

          
oddess of gloo

m
              
She speaks goo

              
d English, and

             
 she invites y

              
ou up into her

 
 room
             
And you're so 

              
kind and caref

              
ul not to go t

          
o her too soon
             
And she takes 

              
your voice, an

             
d leaves you h

              
owling at the 


moon


[Verse 4]
              
Up on housing 

             
project hill, 

              
it's either fo

         
rtune or fame

You can pick one or the other
             
Though neither

              
 of them ought

              
 to be what th

   
ey claim
              
And if you're 

             
looking to get

              
 silly, you be

              
tter go back t

              
o from where y

   
ou came
             
'Cause the cop

              
s don't need y

             
ou, and man, t

              
hey expect the

 
 same


[Verse 5]
              
Now all the au

             
thorities, the

              
y just stand a

          
round and boas

t
              
How they black

              
mailed the ser

             
geant at arms 

              
into leaving h

   
is post
              
And picking up

             
 Angel, who ju

              
st arrived her

           
e from the coa

st
              
Who looked so 

             
fine at first,

             
 but left look

              
ing just like 

  
a ghost


[Verse 6]
              
I started out 

              
on burgundy, b

             
ut soon hit th

         
e harder stuff
              
Everybody said

              
 they'd stand 

             
behind me when

              
 the game got 


rough
             
But the joke w

              
as one me, the

              
re was nobody 

              
there to even 


bluff
             
I'm going back

              
 to New York C

             
ity, I do beli

              
eve I've had e


nough