Chords for Dave Alvin & The Guilty Ones "Johnny Ace Is Dead"

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_ _ _ _ [F] _ Down in Houston, [Eb] Texas [Ab] on a Christmas night with a gun in his hand and his name up in
lights [F] he was young and handsome, the prince of the blues, with a shark skin suit and [Ab] alligator shoes.
[Fm] He was flirting with the women who had come [G] backstage and he said, ladies wanna [Db] see me
play a wild little [Bb] game?
But big mama thought [F] he said go sing your song, put that damn thing down before something [Bb] goes wrong.
Big mama cried, _ dear lord big [Fm] mama said, _ _ _ [F] _
he [Bb] put a .22
pistol _ _ right up to his [F] head, _ [Fm] _ _ _
_ [C] then
he smiled at the ladies. _
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Now Johnny [Fm] Aces, [Bb] _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ band _ _ _ _ _ _ _ leader set [Cm] his saxophone down and [Ab] he said, you know I think I better
split before [F] the [Ab] cops come around.
As [F] the crowd in the theater slowly drifted [Ab] away [F] with their heads hung low, not sure of
what to say.
But big Don Rovey, the record company man with [Ab] big diamond rings [Fm] on both his hands,
he said I'm gonna send him back to Memphis in a [Eb] refrigerator truck, cause Johnny Ace
gonna make me a million [Bb] bucks.
Yeah, big mama cried, _ dear lord big mama [Fm] said, _ _ _ _ he [Bb] put a .22
pistol _ right up to his head,
[Fm] _ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ [C] then he smiled at the ladies.
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_ _ _ Now Johnny Aces.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ when Johnny came back to Memphis, Tennessee, _ everyone on Beale Street came out to see.
There were pimps and hustlers, husbands and wives, women young and old all came to say [Eb] goodbye.
And [Fm] as the choir sang [F] and the preachers prayed, five thousand mourners walked to [Bb] his grave.
Where [F] there may be a heaven and there may be a hell, no one knows for sure, but [Ab] now
Johnny Ace knows damn well.
[Bb] Big mama cried, _ dear lord big mama [Fm] said, _ _ _ _ he [Bb] put a .22
pistol _ right up to his [Fm] head, _ _ _ _ _ [C] then
he smiled at the [E] ladies. _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ Now Johnny [Fm] Aces. _ _ _ _ _
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