Chords for Dave Alvin - "Johnny Ace is Dead" live, Eleven Eleven Expanded Edition

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_ Down in Houston, Texas, on a Christmas night, with a gun in his hand, and a [Bb] name of [C] Elijah,
he was young and handsome, Prince of the Blues, in a short-skinned suit, and out of skater shoes.
He was flirting with the women who [F] had come [Bb] backstage, and he said, [C] ladies want to see
me play a wild little game.
But [F] Big Mama said, go sing your song with that damn thing down before something goes [Bb] wrong.
Big Mama cried, _ and Lord Big [C] Mama said, [Fm] _ _ [F] _
_ he [Bb] put a .22
pistol _ _ right up to [C] his head, [Fm] _ _ _
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[C] he smiled at the ladies. _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ Now Johnny [C] Ace is dead.
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_ [Fm] _ [C] Well the band leader set his saxophone down and said, I think I better split more than
cops come around.
While the crowd in the theater slowly drifted away, with their heads hung low, not sure
what to say.
But Big Don Roe be the record company man, with big diamond rings [Gb] on both his [Cm] hands [F] said,
I want to send him back to Memphis in a refrigerated truck, because Johnny Ace is going to make
me a million [Bb] bucks.
Big Mama cried, _ and Lord Big [F] Mama said, [Fm] _ _ _
_ he [Bb] put a .22
pistol _ right up to [C] his _ [Fm] head, [C] _
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he smiled at the ladies. _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ Now Johnny [Fm] Ace is dead. _ _ _
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Now when Johnny Ace got back home to Memphis, Tennessee, everyone [C] on Beale Street came out [Db] to see.
There were pimps [F] and gamblers, husbands and wives, women young and old all came to say goodbye. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ And as the choir sang and the preachers prayed, five thousand mourners marched him to his grave.
Well there may be a heaven, and there may be a hell, no one knows for sure, but now
Johnny Ace knows damn well.
[Bb] Big Mama cried, _ dear Lord Big [C] Mama said, [Fm] _ _ _ _ he put [Bb] a .22
pistol _ _ right up to [C] his head, [Fm] _ _ _ _ and
[C] he smiled at the ladies. _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ Now Johnny Ace [F] is dead. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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