Tom: Gm
Am
Well it's raining it's pouring, you didn't bring a sweater
Am D7/F# E F#7 Gm G#m
Nebraska'll never let you come back home
Am
Hollywood and Vine by the Thrifty Mart sign
D7/F# E F#7 Gm G#m
any night I'll be willin' to bet
Am
There's a young girl with sweet little dreams and pretty blue wishes
D/F# E Am
standin' there just gettin' all wet
Am
And there's a place off the drag called the Gilbert Hotel
D7/F# E F#7 Gm G#m
and there's a couple letters burned out in the sign
Am
And it's better than a bus stop they do good business every time it rains
for little girls with nothing in their jeans
D7/F# E Am
but pretty blue wishes and sweet little jeans
Am
And it's raining it's pouring, the old man is snoring
Now I lay me down to sleep
I hear the sirens in the street
All my dreams are made of chrome
D7/F# E F#7 Gm G#m
I have no way to get back home
Am
I'd rather die before I wake
D7/F#
like Marilyn Monroe
Am
and you could throw my dreams out in the street
D7/F# E Am
and let the rain make 'em grow
(Solo)
Am
Now the night clerk he got a club foot
He's heard every hard luck story
D7/F# E F#7 Gm G#m
at least a hundred times or more
Am
He says: Check out time is 10 a.m.
and that's just what it means
Go on up the stairs
D7/F# E Am
with sweet little wishes and pretty blue dreams
Am D7/F#
And it's raining it's pouring and Hollywood's just fine
Am
Swindle a little girl out of her dreams
E F#7 Gm G#m
another letter in the sign
Am
Now never trust a scarecrow wearin' shades after dark
D7/F#
be careful of that old bow tie he wears
It takes a sweet little bullet from a pretty blue gun
D7/F# E Am
to put those scarlet ribbons in your hair
(Solo)
Am
No, that ain't no cherry bomb
D/F#
4th of July's all done
Just some fool playin' that second line
D7/F# E Am
from the barrel of a pretty blue gun
Am
No, that ain't no cherry bomb
D/F#
4th of July's all done
Just some fool playin' that second line
D7/F# E Am
from the barrel of a pretty blue gun
