Jesse Justice Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Bm]Well[C] Jes[G]se[Em]
was a rovin' gambler
Nine ball was his game
He [Am]kept one step out ahead of his Rep
One [D]town out ahead of his fame

[Verse 2]
I [Em]think I mighta seen him in Clovis
But the place was kinda loud
[Am]Even so, it was a long time ago
When my [D]head sorta
stayed in a cloud

[Verse 3]
There's a [G]lotta green in the city
That you [D]can't cut thick or thin
There's a [Am]lot of green
between fat and lean
That [D]you might never see again,
[Bm]oh, [C]Jesse
You [G]might never see [Em]again

[Verse 4]
Well I [Em]know I saw him in Shreveport
The time this song's about
I was [Am]hangin' in town 'cause
the river was down
Like my [D]sister I was sweatin'
the drought

[Verse 5]
He was [Em]playin' some kid
from Dallas
Who could out talk a freeway cop
A [Am]day and a half they'd been on a raft
Tryin' to [D]play till the other
would drop

[Verse 6]
There's a [G]lotta green in the city
That you [D]can't cut thick or thin
There's a [Am]lot of green
between fat and lean
That you [D]might never see again, [Bm]oh, [C]Jesse
You [G]might never see again

[Verse 7]
[Em]Carmen wore a red silk dress
She lean'd beside the coke machine
She [Am]must have been the prize
that was in his eyes
It was as [D]clear as gasoline

[Verse 8]
[Em]Twenty seven hundred on the table
Another twenty five in the dark
[Am]Dallas was talkin' up a blue streak
As [D]Jesse reached for the chalk

[Verse 9]
The [Em]room got deathly quiet
The newsboy shut his mouth
The [Am]cold north wind changed
it's mind again
And blew [D]lazy from the south

[Verse 10]
The [Em]whippoorwills quit singin'
Not even the judge did laugh
When [Am]Jesse Justice chalked his saber
And [D]sliced the 9 in half

[Verse 11]
There's a [G]lotta green in the city
That you [D]can't cut thick or thin
There's a [Am]lot of green
between fat and lean
That you [D]might never see again,
[Bm]oh, [C]Jesse
You [G]might never see again

[Outro 1]
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