Chords for Bill Plaskett performs 'Jim Jones' in the NP Music studio

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Bill Plaskett performs 'Jim Jones' in the NP Music studio chords
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This is a traditional song, it's kind of a cover of a traditional song, called Jim Jones.
It's in the genre of the transportation ballads.
A good number of songs written about transporting convicts to Australia
during the colonial days for, like, minor offences. Here's this.
[A]
[E] [A] [D] [E]
[D] [E]
[A] [D] [A] [E]
[A] [E] [A]
Come listen for a moment, [E] lads, and hear me tell [D] me tale
[E] [A] How across [D] the seas [E] from England [A] I [D] was condemned [E] to sail
[A] Oh, the jury found me [D] [E] guilty, and says the judge, [D] says he
[E] [A] For life, [D] Jim [E] Jones, I'm sending [A] you across [E] the [A] stormy sea
[D] You'll take a trip [A] [Bm] on a [E] convict ship, [A] you'll join the Iron Gang
[Bm] [A] [D] Don't get [A] too gay [Bm] on Botany [E] Bay, [A] or else [D] you'll [E] surely hang
[A] [E] Or [A] else you'll surely [Dm] hang, he [E] says, and after that [D] Jim Jones
[E] [A] It's high up [D] upon [E] the gallows [A] tree, the crows [E] will pick [A] your bones
Our [D]
[E] [A] [E] ship [A] was high upon the [E] sea when pirates [D] came along
[E] [A] But the [D] soldiers [E] on our convict ship [A] were [D] full five [E] hundred strong
[A] They [E] opened [A]
fire, they somehow [E] drove that pirate ship [D] away
[E] [A] Oh, I'd [D] rather have [E] joined that pirate ship [A] than have gone [E] to [A] Botany Bay
[Bm] [D] With the seas a [A] [Bm]-rolling round [E] me [A] and the wind a-blowing gale
I'd [D] rather have [A] drowned [B] in [E] Missouri [A] than have gone [D] to New [E] South Wales
[A] There's no [E] time [A] for mischief [D] there, they [E] say, remember that, [D] says they
[E] [A] They'll [D] flock the [E] poaching out of you [A] down there in Botany Bay
It's [D]
[E] [A] day and night, the [D] [E] irons clang, and like poor galley [D] [E] slaves
[A] We toil, [D] we toil, [E] and when we die [A] we must [D] fill [E] dishonoured graves
But it's [A] by and by, [D] I'll slip [E] my chains into the bush [D] I'll go
[E] [A] And I'll [D] join the [E] brave bush rangers [A] there jacked on [E] a hue [A] and co
[D] And some dark [A] night [Bm] when [E] everything [A] is silent in the town
[Bm] [A] [D] I'll shoot those [A] [Bm] tyrants, [E] one and all, [A] I'll gun [D] the [E] floggers down
[A] I'll give the law no [D] [E] little shock, remember what [D] I [E] say
[A] They'll yet [D] regret [E] they sent Jim [A] Jones in [E] chains to [A] Botany Bay
[Bm] [C#m] [E]
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This is a traditional song, it's kind of a cover of a traditional song, _ called Jim Jones.
It's in the genre of the transportation ballads.
A good number of songs written about transporting convicts to Australia
_ during the colonial days for, like, minor offences. Here's this.
[A] _ _
_ _ [E] _ [A] _ _ _ [D] _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [E] _
[A] _ _ _ [D] _ [A] _ [E] _ _ _
_ [A] _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ Come _ listen for a moment, [E] lads, and hear me tell [D] me tale
[E] _ [A] How across [D] the seas [E] from England _ [A] I [D] was condemned [E] to sail
_ [A] Oh, the jury found me [D] [E] guilty, and says the judge, [D] says he
[E] _ [A] For life, [D] Jim [E] Jones, I'm sending [A] you across [E] the _ [A] stormy sea
_ [D] You'll take a trip [A] [Bm] on a [E] convict ship, [A] you'll join the Iron Gang
[Bm] _ [A] [D] Don't get [A] too gay [Bm] on Botany [E] Bay, [A] or else [D] you'll [E] surely hang
_ _ [A] [E] Or [A] else you'll surely [Dm] hang, he [E] says, and after that [D] Jim Jones
[E] [A] It's high up [D] upon [E] the gallows [A] tree, the crows [E] will pick [A] your bones
_ Our [D] _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] [E] ship [A] was high upon the [E] sea when pirates [D] came along
[E] _ [A] But the [D] soldiers [E] on our convict ship [A] were [D] full five [E] hundred strong
_ [A] They [E] opened [A]
fire, they somehow [E] drove that pirate ship [D] away
[E] _ [A] Oh, I'd [D] rather have [E] joined that pirate ship [A] than have gone [E] to [A] Botany Bay
_ [Bm] [D] With the seas a [A] [Bm]-rolling round [E] me [A] and the wind a-blowing gale
I'd [D] rather have [A] drowned [B] in [E] Missouri [A] than have gone [D] to New [E] South Wales
_ [A] There's no [E] time [A] for mischief [D] there, they [E] say, remember that, [D] says they
[E] _ [A] They'll [D] flock the [E] poaching out of you [A] down there in Botany Bay
_ It's _ [D] _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] day and night, the [D] [E] irons clang, and like poor galley [D] _ [E] slaves
[A] We toil, [D] we toil, [E] and when we die [A] we must [D] fill [E] dishonoured graves
_ But it's [A] by and by, [D] I'll slip [E] my chains into the bush [D] I'll go
[E] _ [A] And I'll [D] join the [E] brave bush rangers [A] there jacked on [E] a hue [A] and co
_ [D] And some dark [A] night [Bm] when [E] everything [A] is silent in the town
[Bm] _ [A] [D] I'll shoot those [A] [Bm] tyrants, [E] one and all, [A] I'll gun [D] the [E] floggers down
_ _ [A] I'll give the law no [D] [E] little shock, remember what [D] I [E] say
_ [A] They'll yet [D] regret [E] they sent Jim [A] Jones in [E] chains to [A] Botany Bay _ _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ [C#m] _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
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