Key: D major
Verse 1
D
Em
D
I'm old -time more of the bummer, sure,
E
Em
in the good old golden days
B
Em
They call me a bummer and
but what do I care for praise?
Em
D
I wander around from town to town
D
E
D
The people all say there goes time
Em
D
more of the days of forty -nine
Em
D
My comrades, they all love me well,
D
E
Em
A few hard cases I will admit,
Whatever the pinch,
Em
D
they never would flinch,
Em
E
and they never would have fret or whine
D
Em
Like good old bricks,
Em
E
in the days of 49
he's a hard -on cuss,
F#
Em
and he never did repent
D
Em
He never was known to miss a drink
E
Em
he didn't resign
D
Em
D
And in his bloom, he went up to flume
A poker bill of one of the boys,
he was always in for a game
D
Em
But whether he won or whether he lost,
F#
D
Em
He'd ante up and he'd
D
Em
In a game of death, Bill lost his breath
A
Em
in the days of forty -nine
D
Em
For the days of old when we
Em
D
Jake the butcher's boy,
D
Em
An d Jake rampaged against the knife
D
Em
in the hand of an old Bob Siney
A
Em
D
A
in the days of 49
Rack Shack
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Em
I never will forget
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Em
He'd roar all day, he'd roar all night
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Bm
I guess he's roaring yet
D
Em
One night he fell in a prospect hole
in a roaring bat design
D
Em
And in that hole, he roared out his soul
in the days of 49
Of all the comrades that I've had,
now there's none that's left to boast
D
Em
I'm left alone in my misery,
Em
E
Em
F#m
And as I pass from town to town,
D
Em
There goes Tom Moore,
that bummer, sure,
of the days of 49
In the days of old,
in the days of gold,
How oft times I repined,
D
Em
For the days of old,
when we dug up to gold,
In the days of forty -nine, oh yeah.
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