Key: E major•
Verse 1
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B
A
I flopped down in
my easy chair and turned on channel 2
A bad gunslinger called Salty Sam
was a- chasin' poor sweet Sue
He trapped her in the old sawmill
and said with an evil laugh
"If you don't give me the deed to your ranch,
I'll saw you all in half"
Verse 2
A
B
A
And then he grabbed her
He tied her up (And then?)
A
B
He turned on the buzz saw
(And then? And then?)
Verse 3
B
Ack- ack
A
E
A
And then along came Jones
F
C#
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Slow- talkin' Jones
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A
G#
A
B
Along came lonely,
E
A
lanky Jones
Verse 4
A
Commercial came on,
so I got up to get myself a snack
You should've seen what was going
on by the time that I got back
Down in the old abandoned mine,
sweet Sue was a- havin' fits
B
That villain said, "Give me the deed to your
Verse 5
A
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And then he grabbed her
He tied her up (And then?)
He lit the fuse to the dynamite
(And then? And then?)
Verse 6
B
Ack- ack
A
E
A
And then along came Jones
E
B
E
Tall, thin Jones
B
A
F
D
Slow- talkin' Jones
Interlude 1
lanky Jones
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B
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E
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B
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E
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D
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D
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Verse 7
I turned it off and turned on another show
But there was the same old shoot-
'em- up and the same old rodeo
Salty Sam was a- tryin' to stuff
Sweet Sue in a burlap sack
E
He said, "If you don't give me the deed to your ranch,
Verse 8
He tied her up (And then?)
A train started coming (And then?
A
Bb
And then?)
Verse 9
Bb
Ack- ack
A
F
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E
A
And then along came Jones
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B
E
Tall, thin Jones
B
D
Slow- talkin' Jones
E
A
Along came lonely, lanky Jones
A
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