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Incomplete tab transcription, but it's a decent start ...
I do it acoustic as well as acoustic/electric
transcribed by pjantzen@med.usf.edu

Desperados Under The Eaves
Warren Zevon
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F
F     Bb             C           F
I was sitting in the Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel
      Bb            C            F
I was staring in my empty coffee cup
      A                 Asus4-A      Bb
I was thinking that the gypsy wasn't lyin'
        F (let ring)
All the salty margaritas in Los Angeles
C
I'm gonna drink 'em up

F      Bb         C(III)          F
And if California slides into the ocean
         Bb          C(I)              F
Like the mystics and statistics say it will
A              Asus4(?)      Bb
I predict this motel will be standing
C              F
Until I pay my bill

acoustic riff         electric riff (?????)
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Don't the sun look angry through the trees
Don't the trees look like crucified thieves
Don't you feel like Desperados under the eaves
Heaven help the one who leaves

Bb                                   F
Still waking up in the mornings with shaking hands
F                                      C
And I'm trying to find a girl who understands me
    A                       Asus4        Bb
But except in dreams you're never really free
Bb        Bb       C        F
Don't the sun look angry at me

I was sitting in the Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel
I was listening to the air conditioner hum
It went mmmmmm..

{I haven't bothered to transcribe this part - I usually end in a jam in F,
then transition into After Midnight or just about anything done by Bonnie
Raitt in F.  Nothing like taking an audience from a relaxing tune to
dancing their butts off.}


 Look away..........................................
(Look away down Gower Avenue, Look away....)