Bob Dylan - Jim Jones Chords

Capo 2.


[Intro]

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[Verse 1]

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Come and listen for a moment, lads,
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And hear me tell my tale.
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How across the sea from England
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I was condemned to sail.
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Now the jury found me  guilty,
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Then says the judge, says he,
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"Oh, for life, Jim Jones, I'm sending you
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Across the stormy sea.
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But take a tip before you ship
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To join the iron gang.
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Don't get too gay in Botany Bay,
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Or else you'll surely  hang.
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Or else you'll surely    hang," says he.
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"And after that, Jim Jones,
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It's high up upon the gallows tree
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The crows will pick your bones."


[Verse 2]

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Well our ship was high upon the sea
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when pirates came along,
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But the soldiers on our convict ship
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Were full five hundred strong.
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For they opened fire and somehow drove
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That pirate ship away.
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But I'd rather have joined that pirate ship
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Than gone to Botany Bay.
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With the storms ragin' round us,
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And the winds a-blowin' gales,
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I'd rather have drowned in misery
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Than gone to New South Wales.
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There's no time for mischief there, they say
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remember that says they
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oh they'll flog the poaching out of you
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down there in Botany Bay


[Verse 3]

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Now it's day and night and the irons clang,
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And like poor galley slaves
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We toil and toil, and when we die
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Must fill dishonored graves,
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And it's by and by I'll slip my chains,
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Well, into the bush I'll go
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And I'll join the brave bush rangers there,
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Jack Donohue and co.
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And some dark night, when everything
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Is silent in the town
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I'll shoot those tyrants one and all,
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I'll gun the flogger down.

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Oh, I'll give the land a little shock,
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Remember what I say,
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And they'll yet regret they've sent Jim Jones
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In chains to Botany Bay.