Tom Waits

The ^Fm higher that the monkey can climb, the ^Cm more he shows his tail
Call ^Fm no man happy till he dies, there's no ^Cm milk at the bottom of the pail
^Dm God builds a church, the devil builds a chapel
like the thistles that are growing on the trunk of a tree
All the good in the world you can put inside a thimble
And still have room for you and me
If there's ^Fm one thing you can say about mankind
There's ^Dm nothing kind about man
You can ^Fm drive out nature with a pitch fork
But it ^Cm always comes roaring back again
^Fm Misery's the river of the world
Misery's the river of the world
Misery's the river of the world
^{Fm Cm Fm Cm Fm Cm Fm}
The ^Fm higher that the monkey can climb, the ^Cm more he shows his tail
Call ^Fm no man happy till he dies, there's no ^Cm milk at the bottom of the pail
God ^Dm tempers all the ruins for the new shorn lands
The ^Am devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand
All the ^Fm good in the world you can put inside a thimble
And ^Cm still have room for ^C7 you and me
If there's ^Fm one thing you can say about mankind
There's ^Cm nothing kind about man
You can ^Dm drive out nature with a pitch fork
But it ^Cm always comes roaring back again
For ^Fm want of a bird the sky was lost, for ^Cm want of a nail the shoe was lost
For ^Fm want of a life a life was lost for ^Cm want of a toy a ^C7 child was lost
And ^Fm misery's the river of the world
^Cm Misery's the river of the world
Everybody ^Fm row, everybody row
^Cm Misery's the river of the word
^Fm Misery's the river of the world
^Cm Misery's the river of the world
Everybody ^Fm row, everybody row
Everybody ^Cm row, everybody row
^Fm Misery's the river of the world
^Am Misery's the river of the world
Everybody ^Fm row, everybody row
Everybody ^Am row, everybody row
Everybody ^Fm row
^Am Misery's the river of the world
^Fm Misery's the river of the world
^Am Misery's the river of the world
^Fm Misery's the river of the world
Everybody ^Am row, everybody
Fm Am Fm Am Fm (fades)
Everybody row