Poor Poor Pitiful Me

By Warren Zevon
Key: D

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Well I lay my head on the rail-road tracks
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Wait-in on the Dou-ble “E”
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But the train don’t run
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By here no more
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Poor, poor pit-i-ful me

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Poor, poor pit-i-ful me
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Poor, poor pit-i-ful me
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These young girls won’t let me be
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Lord have mer-cy on me
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Woe woe is me

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Well, I met a girl in West Hol-ly-wood
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Now I ain’t nam-ing names
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Well she real-ly worked me ov-er good
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Just like Jes-se James
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Yes she real-ly worked me ov-er good
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She was a cred-it to her gen-der
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She put me through some chang-es, Lord
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Sort of like a War-ing blend-er

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Poor, poor pit-i-ful me
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Poor, poor pit-i-ful me
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These young girls won’t let me be
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Lord have mer-cy on me
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Woe, woe is me

Well, I met a girl at the Rainbow bar
She asked me if I’d beat her
She took me back to the Hyatt House
I don’t want to talk about it

Poor, poor pitiful me
Poor, poor pitiful me
These young girls won’t let me be
Lord have mercy on me
Woe is me

(Well, I met a girl from the Vieux Carre`
Down in Yokahama
She picked me up and she throwed me down
I said, “Please don’t hurt me, Mama”)