Chords for Old Bones(Jez Lowe)

You won't make old bones, you won't make old bones, _ you won't make [C#] old bones, [F#] you'll _ see.
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_ _ [G#] _ _ _ If anybody sings the Les Barker version of this, I'll [F#] be very upset. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] Oh, when I was young, me father said to me, he [G#] said to me, [F#] he said,
Never take [C#] good advice when it [F#] comes to _ _ [B] thinking. _
[F#] Cause you can have all the riches [B] of the golden kind, [F#] but without the riches of [G#] your piece of mind.
[F#] You [B] won't make [F#] _ _ _ _ old bones, you won't make old _ bones, [B] you won't [F#] make old bones, you'll see.
_ _ [B] _ _ [C#] And [F#] as the old men sit [B] and curse [G#] time, slip [F#] and stand, time, [G#] slip and stand.
[F#] _ I sit and [G#] curse the tide of long [F#] life, _ _ _ [B] _
_ [C#] _ _ [F#] and below the wind blows [B] like the sound of the sea.
The sun that it carries [G#] comes clear to me and [F#] says,
You [B] won't [F#] make _ old bones, [B] you [F#] won't make [G#] old [F#m] bones, _ [B] you won't [F#] make old bones, you'll see.
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[G#] Know [F#] there's some folks, they might remark on me, ferret and frown, be ferret [G#] and frown.
[F#] And say the only way is to [B] get one day put to [F#] your job.
_ _ [B] _ _ [G#] _ _ [F#] Oh, but everybody [B] gives the same advice, they say, [F#] go, sleep, [C#] rest, soldiers, lie, [F#] for you [B] won't [F#] make _ [G#] old bones.
_ You won't make old bones, _ [B] you won't [F#] make old bones, you'll see.
_ [B] _ _ [G#] _ [F#] So I went to the army like everybody told me to do, they told me [G#] to do.
They [F#] said we'd love to make a soldier out of you.
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[G#] [F#] Oh, but before I put my [B]
name on the line, [F#] my father's words come [G#] to me in time.
And he said, [B] you won't [F#] make old _ bones, you [B] won't [F#] make _ [G#] _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ [F#] _ old _ bones, you'll see.
_ [G#] I _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [F#] _
_ said, you're good when you're drunk, they're not [G#] the likes [F#] of me, the likes [G#] of me.
[F#] So if you should it might a [B] little weaker [F#] than bleaker to _ me.
[B] _ _ [C#] _ Because [F#] you're tall, good for many, [B] only much to few.
[F#] And all that I wanted was [G#] a job to do, [F#] they said, you won't make _ old bones, [B] you [F#] won't make old bones,
_ _ you won't make old bones, you'll _ [B] see.
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_ _ [B] _ _ [G#] _ So [F#] you people in [B] power and position, I tell you beware, I tell you [C#] _ beware.
Of your thoughts and your figures, [B] to tell [F#] you what, when and to where.
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_ [G#] _ [F#] Because your thoughts and your figures [B] are the likes of me.
[F#] And don't try and tell [G#] me how we want it to be.
[F#] Oh, you won't [F#] make _ [C#] old bones, you [F#] won't make old _ bones, [B] you won't [F#] make old _ bones, you'll see.
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