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Cleaning Windows by Van Morrison - Guitar Chords

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Version 1

            Cappo on Third Fret

Lead in:  G with occasional index finger hammerons

C (add pinky on third fret of high E string)
Oh, the smell of the bakery from across the street
          G
Got in my nose
C
As we carried our ladders down the street
                            G
With the wrought-iron gate rows
C
I went home and listened to Jimmie Rodgers
             G
in my lunch-break

C
Bought five Woodbines at the shop on the corner
                            G
And went straight back to work.
     C
Oh, Sam was up on top
                                 G
And I was on the bottom with the v
C
We went for lemonade and Paris buns
                           G
At the shop and broke for tea
C
I collected from the lady
                                G
And I cleaned the fanlight inside-out
C
I was blowing saxophone on the weekend
               G
In that down joint.

G       D        Em
What's  my     line?
      D              C
I'm happy cleaning windows
G       D        Em
Take     my      time
      D              C
I'll see you when my love grows
G           D        Em
Baby don't let it slide
        D                  C
I'm a working man in my prime
           G
Cleaning windows (number hundred and thirty-six)


[Second Verse]
C
I heard Leadbelly and Blind Lemon
                     G
On the street where I was born
C
Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee,
                                  G
Muddy Waters singin' I'm A Rolling Stone
C                                         G
I went home and read my Christmas Humphreys' book on Zen
C
Curiosity killed the cat
                             G
Kerouac's Dharma Bums and On The Road

[Second Chorus]

G       D        Em
What's  my     line?
      D              C
I'm happy cleaning windows
G       D        Em
Take     my      time
      D              C
I'll see you when my love grows
G           D        Em
Baby don't let it slide
        D                  C
I'm a working man in my prime
           G
Cleaning windows

I'll say it again...

(and then he continues to 'say it again')...

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