Intro: F5

F5                  Bb5
Cars lined up the street
     D5               F5
A procession for the thief
     F5                         Bb5
The men were restless and the women howled
    D5                   F5
As they professed their grief

   D5              F5
A smoke was lying on his lips
            Bb5           C5
And in his hand a rusty flask
F5                   D5
Even in death he'd forced a smile
                                C5               F5
I oughta give him his dues for going out like that


Interlude: 
F5 D5 F5 Bb5
D5 x2  F5 x2
F5 Bb5 D5 Bb5
D5 x2  F5 x2

             F5                                 
When you've walked through the valley
         Bb5
Saw the face of death
            D5
And you've paid your debts 
      Bb5                      D5 
Well then, is there anything left
Bb5                   F5
  Is there anything left
           D5       Bb5
When you've settled up
                   F5
Is there anything left

   F5                   Bb5
I came to pay a false courtesy
    D5                  Bb5
So you couldn't get the best of me
         D5               Bb5                        F5
But the grief hung in the air and mingled with the sweat
      D5                 Bb5                         F5
I presumed to know your inner workings, but I just wept


  Bb5                           F5
I never thought much about the man
                     C5       F5
He was always just drifting along
       Bb5
But a couple hours in
                  F5
We were drunk as sin
       D5           Bb5         F5
I was wrong, I was wrong about him
        D5             Bb5             F5
I came around, I came around, I came around


   F5              Bb5
I took you for a hanger-on
        D5                   F5
But the way those folks all wept
     F5                  Bb5
You must've been doing something right
             D5          F5
To move the company you kept

      Bb5                      F5
The drinks kept coming and I loosed my tongue
       D5              C5    
And I talked a little shit
          F5                        Bb5
But your friends just laughed and chimed right in
         D5                      F5
Telling yarns so good it made me quit


  Bb5                           F5
I never thought much about the man
                     C5       F5
He was always just drifting along
       Bb5
But a couple hours in
                  F5
We were drunk as sin
       D5           Bb5         F5
I was wrong, I was wrong about him
        D5             Bb5             F5
I came around, I came around, I came around


Bb5                F5
The room started reeling
Bb5         F5
I got the feeling I read you wrong
Bb5           F5          Bb5
Then another bottle of gin
Bb5                F5      Bb5
Break out the bar brawl again
Bb5            F5          C5
You were the reason for them


        F5               Bb5
By the time the sun was at its feet
     D5              F5
Everybody there was pissed
           F5                       Bb5
And I can say with some degree of certainty
         D5              F5
The old bastard will be missed
Bb5              F5                Bb5                C5
I thought your life was nothing more than one long grift
      F5                    D5
Now I sit weeping by your coffin
             Bb5           F5
Clutching a bottle in my fist


        D5             Bb5             F5
I came around, I came around, I came around x 6