Intro:
Am                    E                       Am
In my life I was Noel Gruber who worked at Taco Bell in Uranium City Saskatchewan
 E          Am                E
But in my dreams I played a different role
      E7                Am     F    E7    (nc)
I was Monique Gibeau in postwar France

    F            E7                 Am
A hooker with a heart of black charcoal

Verse 1:
                 E7
I write poems to burn by fire light
                         Am
Drink champagne and guzzle gin
                            E7
Good girls call me The Town Bicycle
                                          Am
Don’t knock it till you’ve tried my life of sin

Verse 2:
                                 E7
Oh Claude, my pimp, knows never mess with me
                              Am
Last xxxxx did that faded quick to black
                             E7
I have no idea where to find him officers
    E7
But if you do please mention that I’d
E
like to have returned the pretty knife
                              Am
That I stuck ten times in his back

Chorus 1:
           Dm             Am
For I sing songs until the break of dawn
   E7                     Am
I embrace a new man every night
               Dm          Am
My life’s one never ending carnival
    B7                           E7
A world of boozy-floozy flashing light
          Am        F    E7  Am
I want to be that xxxxxx up girl

Interlude: E7 Am E7 Am

Verse 3:
                                   E7
He said, I think I am in love with you
                                  Am
I've heard that lie a million times before
                            E7
Oh tonight I give into the fantasy
                                    Am
Take love when you can when you're a xxxxx

Chorus 2:
          Dm             Am
For I sing songs until the break of dawn
   E7                     Am
I embrace a new man every night
               Dm          Am
My life’s one never ending carnival
    B7                           E7
A world of boozy-floozy flashing light
          Am        F    E7  Am
I want to be that xxxxxx up girl

Verse 4:
                        E7
So now I sell my love for opium
                           Am
In some rat infested Chinese dive
                                    E7
At night I burn myself with cigarettes
                                Am Bm C
Just to somehow prove I'm still alive

Verse 5:
(nc)                          E7
Eight months later, I catch typhoid flu
                                Am
Kicked out I see the ugly light of day
                     E                    E7 E
Dying in an alley a priest kneels down to me

Dialogue:

Chorus 3:
          Dm             Am
For I sing songs until the break of dawn
   E7                     Am
I embrace a new man every night
               Dm          Am
my life’s one never ending carnival
    B7                           E7
A world of boozy-floozy flashing light
          Dm             Am
For I sing songs until the break of dawn
   E7                     Am
I embrace a new man everynight
               Dm          Am
My life’s one never ending carnival
    B7                           E7
A world of boozy-floozy flashing light

          Am        F    E  Am
I want to be that xxxxxx up girl

(nc)
Wanna be that xxxxxx up girl

E7
Broken heart, a flask of gin
Am
Tattooed with a safety pin
E
Teeth all stained with nicotine
Am
Running nylons, shattered dream
E7
Super crusty holy terror
E
Wild eyes and black mascara
E
Broken heart a flask of gin
Am
Tattooed with a safety pin
E7
Teeth all stained with nicotine
Am
Running nylons shattered dream
E
Super crusty holy terror
Am
Wild eyes and black mascara

Outro:
   E7
If I could have just one dream

If he could have just one dream

    Am       F      E  Am
I'd be that xxxxxx up girl

(nc)
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