Little Shop Of Horrors - Skid Row Downtown

Bb
Alarm goes off at seven
        Gm
And you start uptown.
    Dm
You put in your eight hours
        Cm7               F7    Bb     F/A Gm
For the powers that have always been.
               Cm7
Till it's five P.M.

[Chorus]

Eb/F
Then You go
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
(Home to skid row.)

Eb/F
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

[Verse 2]

Ebmaj7
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.


Ebmaj7
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
F7
then at five o'clock you head...


[Chorus]

Eb/F
By subway...

Bb        F        Bb
Downtown Where the guys are drips.
Dm       A          Dm
Downtown Where they rip your slips.
Eb       Bb       Eb                Gm
Downtown Where relationships are no go.
Eb/F         Bb F
Down on skid row
Bb            Gm Dm7
Down on skid row
Gm            Eb Bb
Down on skid row
Eb           Cm7   F7
Down on skid row!


[Verse 3]

Gm                                 Eb
Poor! All my life I've always been poor.
                           Gm
I keep asking God what I'm for,
                              Dm
and he tells me "Gee, I'm not sure
Cm7         Eb/F
Sweep that floor, kid."
Cm G Cm                      Gm
Oh,   I started life as an orphan,
           Dm   Gm
a child of the street
                  Cm G
Here on skid row.
Cm                     Gm
He took me in, gave me shelter, a bed,
C7
Crust of bread and a job
Bb                   C7                       F7sus4
Treats me like dirt, calls me a slob, Which I am.
F7
So I live

[Chorus]

Bb
Downtown That's your home address.
        Dm
Ya live Downtown When your life's a mess.
        Eb                                Gm
Ya live  Downtown Where depressions' jes' Status Quo.


Eb/F         Bb
Down on skid row

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.


Bb
Show me how and I will, I'll get out-a here.
Dm
I'll start climbin' up hill and get out-a here.
Eb
Someone tell me I still could get out-a here.
Gm                              Eb/F
Someone tell lady luck that I'm stuck here.


Bb
Gee it sure would be swell to get out-a here
Dm
Bid the gutter fairwell and get out-a here
Eb
I'd move heaven and hell to get out-a skid
Gm                  F7sus4
I'd do I dunno what to get out-a skid

but a hell of a lot to get out-a skid

people tell me there's not a way out-a skid
                                       Bb
but believe me I gotta get out-a skid row.