{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2360171,"song":"John Doe No 24","artist":"Mary Chapin Carpenter","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11488273-john-doe-no-24-chords-by-mary-chapin-carpenter/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2360171?type=chord","rating":4.99241,"votes":6,"content":"[Intro]\r\n[ch]E[/ch]    [ch]B[/ch]  [ch]E[/ch]    [ch]B[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]      [ch]E[/ch]                            [ch]B[/ch]\r\nI was standing on the sidewalk in 1945[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]E[/ch]              [ch]B[/ch]\r\nIn Jacksonville, Illinois[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]                            [ch]B[/ch]\r\nWhen asked what my name was there came no reply[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]E[/ch]                              [ch]B[/ch]\r\nThey said I was a deaf and sightless half wit boy[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]E[/ch]                          [ch]B[/ch]\r\nBut Louis was my name, though I could not say it[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]E[/ch]             [ch]B[/ch]\r\nI was born and raised in New Orleans[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]E[/ch]                           [ch]B[/ch]\r\nMy spirit was wild, so I let the river take it[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]E[/ch]       [ch]B[/ch]\r\nOn a barge and a prayer upstream[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWell, they searched for a mother[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd they searched for a father[/tab]\r\n[tab]                            [ch]B[/ch]\r\nAnd they searched till they searched no more[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThe doctors put to rest their scientific tests[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]B[/ch]\r\nAnd they named me 'John Doe No. 24'[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]E[/ch]                        [ch]B[/ch]\r\nAnd they all shook their heads in pitty[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]E[/ch]             [ch]B[/ch]\r\nFor a world so silent and dark[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                           [ch]E[/ch]\r\nWell, there's no doubt that life's a mystery[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]B[/ch]\r\nBut so too is the human heart[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd it was my heart's own perfume[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]B[/ch]                  [ch]E[/ch]                  [ch]B[/ch]\r\nWhen the crepe jasmine bloomed on saint Morgue Avenue[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThough I couldn't hear the bells[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]B[/ch]                          [ch]E[/ch]      [ch]B[/ch]\r\nOf the streetcars coming by toeing the track I knew[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]                [ch]B[/ch]\r\nAnd if I were an old man returning[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                           [ch]B[/ch]\r\nWith my satchel and porkpie hat[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                           [ch]B[/ch]\r\nI'd hit every jazz joint on Bourbon[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]                     [ch]B[/ch]\r\nAnd I'd hit everyone on Basin after that[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Instrumental]\r\n[ch]E[/ch]   [ch]B[/ch]   [ch]E[/ch]   [ch]B[/ch]   [ch]E[/ch]     [ch]B[/ch]   [ch]E[/ch]   [ch]B[/ch]   [ch]E[/ch]   [ch]B[/ch]   [ch]E[/ch]     [ch]B[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]               [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThe years kept passing as they passed me around[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]B[/ch]\r\nFrom one state ward to another[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]E[/ch]                                      [ch]B[/ch]\r\nLike I was an orphan shoe from the lost and found[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]E[/ch]                    [ch]B[/ch]\r\nAlways missing the other[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]B[/ch]\r\nAnd they gave me a harp last Christmas[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                              [ch]B[/ch]\r\nAnd all the nurses took a dance[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]E[/ch]                         [ch]B[/ch]\r\nBut lately I've been growing listless[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]E[/ch]                         [ch]B[/ch]\r\nI've been dreaming again of the past[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI'm wandering down to the banks[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]B[/ch]                     [ch]E[/ch]        [ch]B[/ch]\r\nOf the great Big Muddy where the shotgun houses stand[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]E[/ch]                 [ch]B[/ch]\r\nI am seven years old and I feel my dad[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]E[/ch]         [ch]B[/ch]\r\nReach out for my hand[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]E[/ch]               [ch]B[/ch]\r\nWhile I drew breath no one missed me[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]E[/ch]               [ch]B[/ch]\r\nSo they won't on the day that I cease[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                      [ch]B[/ch]\r\nPut a sprig of crepe jasmine with me[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]E[/ch]                 [ch]B[/ch]\r\nTo remind me of New Orleans[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                  [ch]B[/ch]\r\nI was standing on the sidewalk in 1945[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]E[/ch]              [ch]B[/ch]\r\nIn Jacksonville, Illinois[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Ending instrumental]\r\n[ch]E[/ch]     [ch]B[/ch]  [ch]E[/ch]  [ch]B[/ch]  [ch]E[/ch]     [ch]B[/ch]  [ch]E[/ch]  [ch]B[/ch]  [ch]E[/ch]     [ch]B[/ch]  [ch]E[/ch]","plain_text":"[Intro]\nE    B  E    B\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Instrumental]\nE   B   E   B   E     B   E   B   E   B   E     B\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Outro]\n\n\n\n[Ending instrumental]\nE     B  E  B  E     B  E  B  E     B  E","chords":["E","B"],"chord_diagrams":{"B":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,3,4,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,4,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]}}}