From: “Shrek 2 - Original Soundtrack”

Little Drop of Poison

by

TOM WAITS and KATHLEEN BRENNAN

Lyrics by: TOM WAITS

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 LITTLE DROP OF POISON
Words and Music by
TOM WAITS and
KATHLEEN BRENNAN
Moderate tango feel = 108
Intro:
Cm Cm/G G Cm Cm/G G Cm Cm/G G Cm Cm/G G
x x ooo x x ooo x x ooo x x ooo
3 3 3 3
3 3 3 3

Verse 1: G G Fm Fm/C C
Cm Cm Cm/G Cm Cm/G
x x x ooo x x ooo xx x x o o
3 3 3
3 3
N.C. 3 3

I like my town with a lit-tle drop of poi - son.

Fm G G/D Ddim G G7
xx ooo x x ooo xxo ooo ooo

3 3

no - bod-y knows they’re lin - ing up to go

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Cm G/C Cm Cm Cm/G G Cm Cm/G
x x x oo x x x ooo x x
3 3 3 3
3 3
N.C.
Ah
(Bkgd. Soprano)
3

in - sane. I’m all a - lone, I smoke my friends

Fm Fm/ C C Fm G G/B Ddim

xx x x o o xx ooo x oo x xxo

ah, ah.

down to the fil - ter. But I feel much

3

Chorus:
G G7/B G7/D Cm G Cm Cm
ooo x ooo x xooo x ooo x x
3 3 3

N.C.
Ah,
3

clean-er af - ter it rains. And she left in the fall, that’s her

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Cm7 Cm/G Cm Cm/E Cm Fm

x x x xx o x xx
3 3 3
3

ah,

3 3

pic-ture on the wall, she al - ways had that lit-tle drop of poi - son.

To Coda
G G/B G G/B G/D Cm Cm/G G Cm Verse 2:
ooo x oo x ooo x oo x x xooo x x ooo x
3 3
3
N.C.
ah.

Did the de -

Cm Cm/G Cm Cm/G Fm Fm/ C Fm Fm/C

x x x x xx x xx x
3 3
3 3

Ah, ah,

vil make the world while God was sleep - ing?

(Vibes)

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G G/D G G/E G/D Cm Cm/G
ooo x xooo ooo xx ooo x x
3
3

Ah,
3

3
You’ll nev - er get a wish from a bone.

Cm Cm/G Cm Cm/G Cm Cm/G

x x x x x x
3 3 3
3 3 3

ah,

3
An - oth - er wrong good - bye, and a hun -

(Vibes)

Fm Fm/C Fm G G/D G G/E G/D

xx x xx ooo x xooo ooo x xooo

ah, ah,

- dred sail - ors. That deep blue sky is my

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Verse 3:
Cm Cm/G Bdim C m G 7 C m G 7
x x x x x x
3 4 4
3 4 4
Coda Cm
x

D.S. al Coda 3
Ah.

home. And she And the

( )

(piano ped.)

C m G 7 C m C m/G F m F m/C F m D dim/ F

x x x x x
4 4
4 4

Ah,

rat al-ways knows when he’s in with weas - els,

G G /D G G /B G /D C m C m/G C m C m/G
x x x x x x
4 4 4 4 4 4
4 4

3 3

here you lose a lit-tle ev-’ry day. Well, I re-mem -

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x x x x xo
4 4
4 4 4

Ah, ah.

- ber when a mil - lion was a mil - lion,

Chorus:
G G /D G G /B C m C m/G C m C m/G
x x x x x
4 4 4 4 4
4 4

Ah,

3
They all have ways to make you pay. And she left in the fall, that’s her

C m C m/G C m C m/G F m F m/C

x
x x
4 4
4 4

ah.

pic - ture on the wall, she al - ways had that lit - tle drop of poi - son.
3

G G /D G G /D G C m
x x
4 4 4 4 4
x 1. 2.
4
C m/G G C m C m
x x
4 4
4 4

And she

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