Chords for Rise Again, Handsome Johnny by Tom Russell

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_ _ _ _ Here's the song another one off the new record
Called rise again handsome Johnny and here's the gist of it in the book
You'll see a picture of Tom playing in the LA Coliseum not guitar, but football.
I was a
half-assed football star
in [F#] high school Jesuit high school I played defensive right in and _ _
My job was to turn all the action inside so the big boys could take care of it and
Wait about 210 back then
_ _ I'm trying to be really honest here.
All right.
It was 212 _ _
But here's the gist of the story and in 1960 I shook Jack Kennedy's hand in that very same LA Coliseum
when he was campaigning and
So three years later on the very day.
He was shot
I had to play a football game in the LA Coliseum and it was sad because not we were big Jack Kennedy fans
So the gist of this was to bring those two scenes together in a Mississippi John Hurt style murder ballad
[B] Those three things that was the task in front of them and Max is one of the finest
Practitioners of that style of a guitar playing and he's on the record
So so here it is a little sing-along rise up handsome Johnny _ _
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_ _ Oh handsome Johnny. _ _
I
wished you love
_ _ Was [E] presidential campaign in the Coliseum [B] parking lot? _ _
rise [F#] again
handsome Johnny rise again
_ _ three years later _
_ 1963
_ _ shot [E] down in Dallas
by a [B] man named Lee _ _
Harvey [F#] Oswald Texas school book [B]
depository
_ _ Police caught Oswald in a picture show
_ He shot [E] a policeman shot down JFK [B] solo _
off [F#] to the House [D#m]-gallery
_ [B] Next _ _ come Jack Ruby _ in his fedora hat
_ _ He owned a [E] couple strip clubs.
He was a low-level mafia cat
Got [F#] to near Oswald Ruby's gun went ratty [B] tat tat
Yeah _ [F#] rise again and some Johnny [B] rise again
_ _ All [F#] this country could use a [B] few good men _
_ You will profile
_ [E] Encouraging you both captain rise [B] again
handsome [F#] Johnny rise again
_ Well the day Jack died
_ We had a football game
[B] We were Catholic [G#m] kids we were too damn [B] sad to play
_ Head [F#] priest said chin up lads
Go out win [B] that game
_ We won that game boys, but it is mighty sad _
in the same [E] _ Coliseum
Where I shook Jack [B] Kennedy's head I
Was [F#] out on the field Jack was watching from the [B] promised land
We were second in the nation
We run the single way _
Three yards in [E] a cloud of dust we could hear Jack's angels sing
_ when [F#] one for the giver _
Jack's [B] watching everybody
_ All [F#] rise again
handsome Johnny [B] rise again this country _
All [F#] this country
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_ _ Profile
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_ [E] Encouraging you both captain rise [B] again
As [F#] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ left the Coliseum
_ That championship night.
_ I thought I saw Jack [G#m] standing
[E] Need the [B] lamppost light _ I went to shake his [F#] hand
_ He disappeared [B] from sight
_ All [F#] rise again
Handsome Johnny [B] rise again this country _ [F#] this country
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Profiling you were a profile _ _
[E] You both captain _ rise again
_ [F#] _ _ [B] One more time
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ [B] This _ country
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_ _ Profile _ you were a profile
_ _ [E] _ Rise _ _ _ again handsome [F#] Johnny [B] rise again
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_ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ It's [E] gonna be great
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