• Song:

    Crooked Jack

  • Artist:

    Dominic Behan

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  I figured this song out the other day I believe it is correct. it is an old irish folk song

Em (022000@1)                 G (320003@1)      D (xx0232@1)  come Irish men both young and old

Em (022000@1)              D (xx0232@1)  with adventure in your soul

Em (022000@1)                     G (320003@1)        D (xx0232@1)  there are better ways to spend your days

Em (022000@1)        D (xx0232@1)    Em (022000@1)  than tiolen down a hole

(chorus)

G (320003@1)                  D (xx0232@1)   I was tall and true all of six foot two

Em (022000@1)     D (xx0232@1)       Em (022000@1)   till they broke me across the back

Em (022000@1)                     G (320003@1)    D (xx0232@1)   By a name I'm known it's not my own

Em (022000@1)    D (xx0232@1)     Em (022000@1)   they call me crooked jack

(second verse)

Em (022000@1)                  G (320003@1)     D (xx0232@1)   the blue eyed gangers pet was I

Em (022000@1)             D (xx0232@1)   Big Jack could do no wrong

Em (022000@1)              G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1)   the reason simply was because

Em (022000@1)      D (xx0232@1)       Em (022000@1)   I could work hard hours and long

(chorus)

(third verse)

I've seen men old before their time
    their faces dark and gray
    I never thought that I myself
    Would soon be the self same way

(Chorus)
    (third verse)

I cursed the day I went away
    To work on those Hydro dams
    for sweat and tears or hope and fear
    bound up a shuddering jams

(chorus)
    (final verse)

they say that honest toil is good
     for the body and the soul
     but I tell you boys it's blood and sweat
     that they want you down a hole.




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