D                 Bm
  All you folks back home
             F#m          A
I'll never tell you this

  D                        Bm
  You're not supposed to know
               A
Where your daughter is

  G                
There are ways of life

  A              Bm
You never understood

            G
It's right here

A              D   A
Downtown Hollywood
 
           G                       A
It's afternoon on Sunset Boulevard

                         Bm
I've got a stolen moment trying hard

    A               G
To write a kind of, kind of Christmas card

 
   D        Bm      F#m            A
But I____________ am burning out again

   D      Bm          F#m                A
Toni___________ght there is fever in my veins


D      Bm
Mama, dear

        F#m            A
All the love you gave

D                        Bm
  I guess there's really nothing

          A
Nothing much to save

  G                 
  See this place

A                     Bm
is as dirty as I feel myself

             G           A
There are still some riches
 
            D    A
At the Roosevelt
              G                   A
That evening prayer, those memories

                      Bm
In my little bedroom, mama, on my knees

 A                              G
That's where I'm at - Down in Los-Angeles

    D        Bm      F#m           A
And I____________ am burning out again

    D        Bm        F#m               A
And I____________ must rise above the shame

    D        Bm               F#m          A          
Toni_____________ght there is fever in my veins, yeah

G   A                                   Bm
Oh,    just think of the girl I used to be

            G                 A          D
  You were my age once, mama, Twenty-three

A                            G                     A
I can still hear some of the songs you used to play

                             Bm
From that summer of love in '68

        A                G
Seems it's turned into a winter of hate


    D        Bm       F#m          A
And I____________ am burning out again

    D        Bm        F#m               A
And I____________ must rise above the shame

    D        Bm               F#m          A
Toni_____________ght there is fever in my veins

    D        Bm               F#m          A       D   Bm7  F#m  A
Toni_____________ght there is fever in my veins, yeah
 
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