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Nyro Laura - Poverty Train guitar tab

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"Poverty Train"

(Laura Nyro)

Intro (guitars):

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[fuzz] [acoustic] [bass]

Last call for the poverty train

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-6--------6---5B6--

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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

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-1-----------|-1-------1---|-3-----------|-3-----------|

-0-----------|-0-------0---|-2h3-----2---|-0-----------|

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-3-----------|-------------|-------------|-------------|

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F/Bb F/A

v v v v v v v v v v v v

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-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

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