Текст песни Tom Waits - Little Drop Of Poison

From the wonderful Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards. Capo on 3.

The rhythm is pretty much a standard tango riff, in 4/4: 
down rest rest down-up down rest down ring.
It is best suited for piano, but a guitar can do the trick as well.
If you find the strumming pattern too hard, you can leave out all short chords.

explanation:
/U = down or upstroke for 1/8th
d/u = down or upstroke for 1/16th
- = rest for 1/8th
_ = ring for duration of strum before underscore

So in short: --duD-D_

 = xx1312

Each 'chorus' ends with a riff like this:

|-2ph-/10-9-7r--|

 - - d u  -  _ 
 - - d u  - -   (six times)

I like my town   with a little drop of  poison
   No-body knows they're lining up to go in-sane
   I'm all alone,       I smoke my friends down to the filter
   But I feel much cleaner after it rains

   And she left in the fall, that's her picture on the wall
                                      (riff)
She always had that little drop of poison

   Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping
   You'll never get a wish from a bone
   Another wrong goodbye and a hunderd    sailors
   That deep blue sky is my home

   And she left in the fall, that's her picture on the wall
                                      (riff)
She always had that little drop of poison

-- a short break follows, and the song goes up half a step --

       And a rat always knows when he's in with   weasels
    Here you lose a little every day
    Well, I remember when a million was   a million
    They all have ways to make you pay

    And she left in the fall, that's her picture on the wall
                                           (no riff)
She always had that little drop of poison

    And she left in the fall, that's her picture on the wall
She always had that little drop of poison

|-3p1h3-/11-10-8r--|

Have fun!

Note: you can also play the song without capo. You can just transpose the song up three steps.
 then becomes: 2x1222.