Out Of Pawn chords

[VERSE 1]
[F]Hey uncle louie, I wrote you a song
[Bb]I'm glad you got your heart out of pawn
[F]I'm glad you got your king out of check
[Bb]At least that's how things stood when I saw you last

[VERSE 2]
[F]It was New Orleans before the flood
[Bb]You had just met a girl! you were falling in love!
[F]She lived on the levee and knew the blues
[Bb]And played harmonica better than you

[F]

[CHORUS]
[Bb]In a neighborhood bar
[F]In the middle of summer
[Dm]Shoulder-to-shoulder
[F]Setting like sister and b[Bb]rother
[F]All of the sorrows you t[Dm]old each other
[Bb]Rose like sm[C]oke from the ro[F]om

[VERSE 3]
[F]The heat and the bourbon was in your head
[Bb]You were talking in tongues! you were back from the dead!
[F]And the girl and the city were one and the same
[Bb]And last call never came

[BRIDGE]
[Bb]And I can see you s[C]wimm[Dm]ing o[F]ut into the [C]street
[F]I can hear you [C]singin[F]g, "when I [Dm]die, don't c[Bb]ry for me"

[VERSE 4]
[F]Hey uncle louie, the city is spinning
[Bb]She sure is pretty. you sure are grinning
[F]She's leading you home from the heat of the bar
[Bb]To lie on the levee and look at the stars

[F]

[CHORUS]
[Bb]You can hold her hand
[F]You can kiss her face
[Dm]Go slow if you can
[F]Cause the world is a very sad p[Bb]lace
[F]And when she leaves [Dm]she'll leave no trace
And the w[Bb]orld will s[C]till be t[F]here

[VERSE 6]
[F]The sky is colored in purple and yellow
[Bb]You lie on the levee with stones for pillows
[F]And you and the girl and the city make love
[Bb]With the harlequin sky up above