Judy Collins - Just like tom thumbs blues

When you're lost in the rain, in Jua^Crez, and it's Easter time ^Gtoo When your gravity fails, and nega^Ctivity don't pull you ^Gthrough Don't ^Cput on any airs when you're down on Rue Morgue Ave^Gnue They got some ^Dhungry women there and they ^Creally make a mess out of ^Gyou

If you see Saint Annie, ^Cplease tell her thanks a ^Glot I cannot move my ^Cfingers, they are all in a ^Gknot I haven't ^Cgot the strength to get up and take another ^Gshot And my ^Dbest friend, the doctor, won't ^Ceven say what it is I've ^Ggot

Sweet Melinda, the ^Cpeasants call her the goddess of ^Ggloom She speaks good English, and she in^Cvites you up into her ^Groom And you're ^Cso kind and careful not to go to her too ^Gsoon And she ^Dtakes your voice, and ^Cleaves you howling at the ^Gmoon

Up on housing project hill,^C it's either fortune or ^Gfame You can pick one or the other Though ^Cneither of them ought to be what they ^Gclaim And if you're ^Clooking to get silly, you better go back to from where you ^Gcame 'Cause the ^Dcops don't need you, and ^Cman, they expect the ^Gsame

Now all the authorities, ^Cthey just stand around and ^Gboast How they blackmailed the sergeant at ^Carms into leaving his ^Gpost And picking up ^CAngel, who just arrived here from the ^Gcoast Who looked so ^Dfine at first, but ^Cleft looking just like a ^Gghost

I started out on burgundy, but ^Csoon hit the harder ^Gstuff Everybody said they'd stand be^Chind me when the game got ^Grough But the ^Cjoke was one me, there was nobody there to even ^Gbluff I'm going ^Dback to New York City, I ^Cdo believe I've had e^Gnough