JJ Cale: Downtown LA
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Downtown L.A. is a depressing place
         D                               Ami
You can see young men with deep lines in their face
                               G
They could all be something if somebody cared
     D                        Ami
But nobody knows they're even down there
G                      Ami
Old woman walking with a sack on her back
G                             Emi
Picking up the garbage people put out back
                              Ami
Men down there trying to walk the line
                         D             Ami
Trading their soul for a bottle of wine
                           D
In the inner city it ain't no good
                                Ami
It's a long, long way from Hollywood
                   G
Bad kind of people got a hold of the street
D                                           G
They got something that the poor people need
                           Bmi       G
At two in the morning they bust your head
    D              Ami
Fat chance walking you'll end up dead
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It' the law of the jungle with a gun and a knife
                                          Ami D Ami G D A G Ami G Ami G D G Emi
If you stay long enough you lose your life                                  
G
Man down there he couldn't be lying                                 
       D
He was sleeping in the street and he couldn't keep from crying  
                         G
Said he'd been there for twenty one years
D                                                     Ami
Through the bars and the brawls and the blues and the tears
            Bmi       C
Prop up the front the back falls down
D
All around the canyons of L.A. town
G                      A               Ami
When he asked me for a dollar I looked him in his face
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Downtown L.A. is a depressing place