Intro
C C G F repeat 8 times

 C               
I'm up on the eleventh floor
 F
And I'm watching the cruisers below
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C C G F

 C
He's down on the street
 F
And he's trying hard to pull sister Flo
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C C G F

 C
My heart's in the basement
 F
My weekend's at an all time low
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C C G F

 C
'Cause she's hoping to score
 F
So I can't see her letting him go
 E
Walk out of her heart
 F               A
Walk out of her mind
 B                                D
She's so swishy in her satin and tat
 B                                        D
In her frock coat and bipperty-bopperty hat
 B
Oh God, I could do better than that


C C G F (play 4 times)

 C
She's an old-time ambassador 
 F
Of sweet talking, night walking games
C C F G 

C C F G

 C
And she's known in the darkest clubs
 F
For pushing ahead of the dames
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C C F G

 C 
If she says she can do it
 F
Then she can do it, she don't make false claims
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C C F G

 C
But she's a Queen, and such are queens
 F
That your laughter is sucked in their brains
 E                    
Now she's leading him on
 F
And she'll lay him right down
 E
Yes she's leading him on 
 F
Yes she'll lay him right down
 E
But it could have been me
 F
Yes, it could have been me
 E
Why didn't I say,
 F                A
why didn't I say, no, no, no


 B                                 D
She's so swishy in her satin and tat
 B                                        D
In her frock coat and bipperty-bopperty hat
 B              
Oh God, I could do better than that
C C G F (play 4 times)

 C 
So I lay down a while
 F
And I gaze at my hotel wall
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C C G F

 C
Oh the cot is so cold
 F
It don't feel like no bed at all
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C C G F

 C
Yeah I lay down a while
 F
And I look at my hotel wall
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C C G F

C 
But he's down on the street
F
So I throw both his bags down the hall
 E
And I'm phoning a cab
 F
'Cause my stomach feels small
 E
There's a taste in my mouth
 F
And it's no taste at all


 E       
It could have been me
 F
Oh yeah, it could have been me
 E
Why didn't I say,
 E                A
Why didn't I say, no, no, no
 B                                 D
She's so swishy in her satin and tat
 B                                        D
In her frock coat and bipperty-bopperty hat
 B              
Oh God, I could do better than that
C C F G repeat 7 times 

then end with a G