Chords for Glen Campbell & Burl Ives

[E] _ _ _ Hey, _ playin'?
_ _ _ _ _ Mayor! _
Jesse James was a lad, [A] and he killed [E] a many a man.
He robbed the Danville [B] train.
[E] With the agent on his knees, [A] he delivered up [E] the keys to the outlaw [B] Frank and [E] Jesse James.
_ [A] Oh, Jesse had a [E] wife and gone for his life.
The children, they [B] were brave.
[E] But that dirty little coward that shot Mr.
Howell had it for Jesse in his grave.
_ It was Jesse's brother Frank that [A] robbed [E] Danville Bank, took the money [B] from the town.
[E] But it was on that very night [A] that they had [E] a terrible fight, though he shot Captain Sheets to the ground.
_ It was a Saturday night, [A] and Jesse [E] was at home, talking to his [B] family friends.
[E] Robert Ford came along [A] like a thief [E] in the night, and he laid before Jesse in his grave.
_ [A] Oh, Jesse had a [E] wife that mourned for his life.
The children, they [B] were brave.
_ [E] But that dirty little coward [A] that shot [E] Mr.
Howell had it [B] for Jesse [E] in his grave.
_ Jesse laid [B] for Jesse [E] in his grave.
_ _ [B] How about this one, Burl? _ _
All day I face [F#] the barren waste _ [B] without the _ taste [F#] of _ water. _ _
[A#] Oh, _ _ _ [B] _ water.
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Oh, [E] Dan and I, [C#m] we'll throw sperm dry, and [E] _ _
souls that cry _ _ [G#m] for [B] _ water. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F#] _ Cool, _ _ _ clear _ _ _ [B] _ water.
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_ Keep a-movin', Dan, [F#] don't you listen to him, Dan.
[G#] He's a devil, [B] not a man, [F#] and he spreads the burning [C] sand with [B] water. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Oh, [E] Dan, can't you see [B] that big green tree?
Where [E] the water's runnin' free, [C#m] and it's waitin' there for you [B] and _ _ _ _ _ me.
_ _ [G#m] _ [F#] _ _ [C#m] Cool, _ _ _ clear _ _ _
[B] _ water. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ I'll sing you a true song [A] of Billy the Kid.
[D] I'll sing of the [A] desperate deeds that he did [D] way out in New [G] Mexico long, long ago,
[D] when a man's only hope was [A] his own [D] 44. _
_ When Billy the Kid [A] was a very young [D] lad, in old Silver City [A] he went to the bat.
[D] Way out in [G] the West with a gun in his hand, at [D] the age of 12 years Billy killed his first man. _ _ _
_ _ _ Very Mexican maidens played [A] guitars and sang [D] a song about Billy, their [A] boy bandit king.
[D] How early his young [G] manhood had reached, it sat him, [D] and a notch on his fist, through _ 421 men.
_ _ _ _ _ How about [C] this one here, Burl? _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Now John Henry, he was a little bitty boy.
He was sittin' on his [G] pappy's knee.
_ [C] Well he picked up a hammer, had a little piece of steel, he said,
This hammer gonna be the death of me, Lord God, this hammer gonna be [Em] the death [C] of me. _
He said, shake your east edge, John Henry. _
_ John Henry, why don't you [G]
sing to me?
I'm [C] a-throwin' twelve pounds from my hips on down.
_ Listen to the cold steel rain, Lord God, listen [G] to the cold steel [C] rain.
You know John Henry, he had a little woman, _ _ and her name was Polly [G] Ann.
_ _ [C] John Henry got sick, and he had to go to bed.
_ Polly drove steel like a man, Lord God, yeah, Polly [G] drove steel [C] like a man.
_ They took John Henry to the White House, _ and they buried him in [G] the sand. _
_ [C] And every local boy from Aruba _ said,
They're like steel driving men, Lord God, _ they're [G] like steel driving [C] men.
_ _ They're like steel driving men, Lord God, _ they're [G] like steel [C] driving _ men.
_ They're like steel driving men, Lord God, _ they're [G] like steel [C] driving men. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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