John Finn's Wife Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Dm]Well the night was deep
and the night was dark
And I was at the old dance- hall
on the edge of town
Some big ceremony was
going down
Well dancers writhed
and squirmed and then
Came apart and then writhed again
Like squirming flies on a pin
In the heat and in the din
In the heat and in the din
I fell to thinking about the brand
new wife of mad John Finn

[Verse 2]
Well, [Dm]midnight came and clock did strike
And in she came,
did John Finn's wife
With legs like scissors and butcher's knives
A tattooed breast and flaming eyes
And a crimson carnation in her teeth
Carving her way through
the dance floor
And I'm standing over
by the bandstand
Every eye gaping on John Finn's wife

[Interlude 1]
Every eye gaping on John Finn's wife
[Dm][Em]
[Am][Em][Am]
[Em][Am][Dsus4][D]

[Verse 3]
Now [Dm]John Finn's wife was something
of a mystery
In a town [Dsus4]where to share a sworn
[Dm]secret was a solemn duty
I had brass knuckles and a bolo knife
Over near the bandstand with
John Finn's wife
She got perfumed breasts
and raven hair
Sprinkled with wedding confetti's
And a gang of garroters were all
giving me stares
Armed, as they were, with machetes
Well the night through the window
was full of lights
A- winking and a watching
at John Finns' wife
A- winking and a watching at John Finns' wife
[Em]

[Interlude 2]
[Am][Em]
[Am][Em][Am][Dsus4]
[D]

[Verse 4]
[D]Well next came the [Dm]cops,
all out on the town
But it don't look like no trouble there
As they head for the bar in their lumpy suits
I slip my hand between the
thighs of John Finn's wife
And they seemed to yawn awake,
[D]her things
[Dm]It was a warm and very ferocious night
The moon [D]full of blood and light
[Dm]And my eyes grew small
and my eyes grew tight
As I plotted in the ear of John Finns' wife
[Em]

[Interlude 3]
[Am][Em][Am]
[Em][Am][Dsus4][D]

[Verse 5]
[Dm]Enter John Finn in his shrunken suit
With his quick black eyes and [D]black cheroot
[Dm]With his filed- down teeth
and a hobnail boot
And his fists full of pistols in his pockets
Aiming at me and aiming at his wife
The band fall silent fearing
for their lives
And with fear in my guts
like tangled twine
'Cause all I got is brass
knuckles and a bolo knife
And mad John [Am]Finns' wife is [Dm]all
And the three of us w walk out of the [Em]hall
[Am]

[Interlude 4]
[Em][Am]
[Em][Am][Dsus4][D]
[Dm]

[Verse 6]
Now [D]the night bore down upon us all
You could hear the crick[Esus4]ets
in the [Em]thickets call
[Dm]And guns did flare and guns did bawl
And I planted my bolo knife in the neck
Of mad John Finn
I took his wretched life
Now I'm over by the bandstand
Every hand moving on John Finns' wife
Every hand moving on John Finns' wife

[Verse 7]
[Em]And[Am][Em][Am]
[Em][Am]
[Dsus4]John Finn[D]s' wife[G]
Took all [D]the flowers down
From her [Em]hair
And [Am]threw them on [D]the ground
And the flies did [G]hum
And the flies did [D]buzz around
Poor John Fin[Em]n
Lying [Am]dead upon the [D]ground
Lying dead upon the ground