Get Behind the Mule chords by Tom Waits

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Intro 1

Verse 1
Em 
Molly be
damned smote Jimmy the Harp
B 
Em 
With a horrid little pistol and a lariat
she's goin to the bottom
A 
Em 
and she's goin down the drain
B 
Em 
Said she wasn't big enough to carry

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Interlude 1

She

Verse 2
Em 
B 
Em 
got to get behind the Mule
B 
in the morning and plow
Em 
B 
Em 
She got to get behind the Mule
in the morning and plow
B 
Em 
She got to get behind the Mule
A 
in the morning and plow
Em 
She got to get behind the Mule
B 
in the morning and plow
Em 

Verse 3
Em 
Choppity chop goes the
axe in the woods
B 
You gotta meet me by the fall down tree
Em 
B 
Shovel of dirt upon a coffin lid
Em 
B 
and I know they'll come lookin
Em 
Am 
for me boys
Em 
and I know they'll
Am 
Em 
come a- lookin for me

Verse 4
B 
Em 
Got to get behind the Mule
B 
Em 
in the morning and plow
B 
Em 
Got to get behind the Mule
B 
in the morning and plow
Em 
Got to get behind the Mule
A 
in the morning and plow
Em 
Got to get behind the Mule
B 
in the morning and plow
Em 

Verse 5
Big Jack Earl was 8'1'
B 
Em 
He stood in the road and he cried
B 
He couldn't make her love him
Em 
Couldn't make her stay
B 
Em 
but tell the good Lord that he tried

Verse 6
Am 
Dusty trail from Atchison to Placerville
A 
Em 
On the wreck of the
Weaverville stage
Am 
Beaula fired on Beatty for a lemonade
Em 
I was stirring my brandy
B 
with a nail boys
Stirring my brandy with a nail
Em 
Well

Verse 7
B 
the rampaging sons of
Em 
the widow James
Jack the cutter and the pock marked kid
Had to stand naked at the bottom
Of the cross
B 
And tell the good lord what they did
Tell the good lord what they did

Verse 8
B 
Em 
Punctuated birds on the power line
A 
In a Studebaker with the Birdie Joe Hoaks
I'm diggin all the way to China
Em 
B 
With a silver spoon
Em 
While the hangman fumbles
with the noose, boys
A 
The hangman fumbles with the noose

Verse 9
Em 
B 
Em 
Pin your ear to the wisdom post
B 
Pin your eye to the line
Em 
B 
Never let the weeds get higher
than the garden
Em 
Always keep a sap phire
B 
in your mind
Em 
B 
Always keep a diamond in your mind
Em 