Jim Jones

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Capo 2.
[Intro]
D
[Verse 1]
Dsus4 D Dsus4 D
Come and listen for a moment, lads,
G
And hear me tell my tale.
D A
How across the sea from England
G A
I was condemned to sail.
D Dsus4 D
Now the jury found me guilty,
G
Then says the judge, says he,
D A
"Oh, for life, Jim Jones, I'm sending you
G D Dsus4
Across the stormy sea.
G
But take a tip before you ship
D Dsus4 D
To join the iron gang.
G
Don't get too gay in Botany Bay,
D Dsus4 D A
Or else you'll surely hang.
D Dsus4 D
Or else you'll surely hang," says he.
G
"And after that, Jim Jones,
D A
It's high up upon the gallows tree
G D
The crows will pick your bones."
[Verse 2]
Dsus4 D Dsus4 D
Well our ship was high upon the sea
G
when pirates came along,
D A
But the soldiers on our convict ship
G A
Were full five hundred strong.
D Dsus4 D
For they opened fire and somehow drove
G
That pirate ship away.
D A
But I'd rather have joined that pirate ship
G D Dsus4
Than gone to Botany Bay.
G
With the storms ragin' round us,
D Dsus4 D
And the winds a-blowin' gales,
G
I'd rather have drowned in misery
D Dsus4 D A
Than gone to New South Wales.
D Dsus4 D
There's no time for mischief there, they say
G
remember that says they
D A
oh they'll flog the poaching out of you
G D
down there in Botany Bay
[Verse 3]
Dsus4 D Dsus4 D
Now it's day and night and the irons clang,
G
And like poor galley slaves
D A
We toil and toil, and when we die
G A
Must fill dishonored graves,
D Dsus4 D
And it's by and by I'll slip my chains,
G
Well, into the bush I'll go
D A
And I'll join the brave bush rangers there,
G D Dsus4
Jack Donohue and co.
G
And some dark night, when everything
D Dsus4 D
Is silent in the town
G
I'll shoot those tyrants one and all,
D Dsus4 D A
I'll gun the flogger down.
D Dsus4 D
Oh, I'll give the land a little shock,
G
Remember what I say,
D A
And they'll yet regret they've sent Jim Jones
G D
In chains to Botany Bay.

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Capo 2.
[Intro]
D
[Verse 1]
[Verse 2]
[Verse 3]

Jim Jones Chords by Bob Dylan

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