Dance Hall Girls

C   G            C
These dance hall girls,  they'll treat you kind
C                       F                  C
They'll give you their bodies, but you'll never touch their minds
    F         C   F           Em    F
They'll fill you up,  with lipstick lies
F               C
Then they'll put you down son
G        Am    D
Don't be surprised
D         C          G          F    C G   C
Is this the way it always is here in Baltimore?
C             G          C
I held her mountains, I kissed her plains
C               F              C
I touched her sunshine, Lord then I drank her rains
    F     C   F          Em   F
But I went too far, I broke too fast
F             C
I thought I had a winner picked
G        Am      D
But I came in last, again
D         C          G          F    C G   C
Is this the way it always is here in Baltimore?
***Refrain:
Em                 F         C
I must have chosen the wrong season to come down
Em               F            G
I never realized they call this sacred ground
G      C     G             C
My sense of time, hell I'm a week behind
C               F              C
I sent a letter home,  but this all takes time you know
      F      C  F           Em  F
I gotta get some money,  I wanna go back home
F            C
But these dance hall girls
C      G         Am   D
Know how to make a man feel alone
D         C          G          F    C G   C
Is this the way it always is here in Baltimore?

***Solo Plays through one verse
**play refrian
G           C     G                  C
   My sense of time, hell I'm a week behind C                     F C
They'll give you their bodies, but you'll never touch their minds
    F         C   F           Em    F
They'll fill you up,  with lipstick lies
F         C
These dance hall girls say
  G               Am      D
They can't stand to see a grown man cry
D         C          G          F
Is this the way it always is here in Baltimore?
F         C         G          F
Is this the way it always is here in Montreal?
F         C         G          F     C G
Is this the way it always is here in Baltimore?
F  C  G    F  C  G  C