Chords for John Prine - Sam Stone - Illegal Smile - Flag Decal Early Performance and Interview w/ Chuck Collins

_ _ _ [A#m] But [B] your flag cow won't get you [F#] into heaven anymore
They're [C#] already _ overcrowded from your [F#] dirty little war
Now [B] Jesus don't like killing [F#] no matter what the reason's for
[C#] And your flag cow won't get you into heaven _ [F#] anymore _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ This is the 2-inch master videotape of John Prine
that we recorded on March 2nd, [G#m] 1972.
_ [F#] This was his first album.
_ Now but fortunately _ I have the key to [E] escape [F#]
[B] reality
_ And you may [E] see me tonight [B] with an illegal smile
It [F#] don't cost very much but it [B] lasts a long [D#] while
Won't [E] you please tell the man I didn't kill anyone _
No I'm [F#] just trying to have me [B] some fun
_ _ _ [Bm] The entire crew [E] had an illegal smile that day when John sang Sam Stone. _
[F] If you just joined us you [A#] missed quite a bit in our concert [C] for this evening.
We have John [E] Prine with us.
[G#] John you're going to be at the Earl of Old Town.
Which one?
It's called West?
On Harlem Avenue.
You really got your start over at the Earl like a lot of people did, didn't you?
Yeah [Gm] well I started out over at the Fifth Peg over in Armortage
[F] and then moved over and [F#] did some stuff over at the Earl.
That's where Chris Doverson picked up on Steve.
Well Steve, he picked up on Steve quite a bit. Steve Goodman.
[A#m] Right, yeah.
Since then a lot of people have [A] been playing your songs [D#] and recording your songs.
[E] John Prine.
_ This [A#] is a song I wrote a couple years ago _ after I got out of the Army. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] Sam Stone _ came home to [A] his wife and family
_ [F#] After serving in the conflict [E] overseas
_ _ _ _ And the time that he served had shattered all his nerves
_ [F#] And left a little shrapnel in his knee
[A] But _ the [A] _ morphine eased the pain
_ And the grass grew around his brain
And [F#] gave him all the confidence [B] he lacked
_ _ _ _ With a purple heart and a monkey on his back
_ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ [E] There's a hole in daddy's arm where [F#m] all the money goes
_ _ Jesus _ [A] _ _
Christ died for nothing [B] I suppose
_ _ _ [E] Little pitchers have big ears
_ [C#m] Don't stop to count the years
_ [F#] Sweet songs never last too long [B] on broken _ radios _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A#]
[E] Sam Stone's welcome home didn't [A] last too long
_ _ _ [B] He went to work when he'd spent his last [E] dime
_ _ _ _ And Sammy took to stealing when [A] he got that empty feeling
_ [B] For a hundred dollar habit [A] _
[B] without overtime
[A] _ _ [E] _ _
And the [A] gold rolled through his veins _ like a thousand railroad trains _
[F#] Knees dismounted in the hours that [B] he chose
_ _ _ _ _ While the kids ran around wearing other _ people's clothes
_ _ _ _ [C#] _ [E] There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the [F#m] money goes
_ _ _ _ [A] Jesus Christ died for nothing [B] I suppose
_ _ _ [E] Little pitchers have big ears
_ [C#] Don't stop to count the [C#m] years
_ [F#] Sweet songs never last too [F#] long on broken _ radios _
[A#] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Sam [E] Stone was alone _ when he [A] popped his last balloon
_ _ [B] _
Climbing walls while sitting in a [E] chair
_ _ _ Well he played his last request _ [A] while a room smelled just like death
[B] With an overdose _ [A]
[F#] hovering in the air
[A] _ _ [E] _ _
But [A] life it lost its fun and there was nothing to be done _
Betrayed [F#] his house that he bought on the [B] GI Bill
_ _ _ _ For [F#] a flag draped casket on a local _ [B] hero's hill
_ _ _ _ [C#] _ [E] There's a hole in daddy's arm where [F#m] all the money goes
_ _ _ _ [A] Jesus Christ died for nothing I suppose
_ _ _ [E] Little pitchers have big ears
[C#] Don't stop to count the years
_ [F#] Sweet songs never last too long on broken _ radios
[B] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#]
Make me an angel
_ [C] Fly us from [G] Montgomery
_ _ Make _ me a [F] poster _ of an [B] old road
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _