Jack, You're Dead chords by Joe Jackson

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Verse 1
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 (G major)  (C major)  (G major)  (C major)  (G major)  (C major)  (A minor)  (B major)  (A flat minor) When
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you  (G major) got no  (F major) more assurance
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Than a  (D major) great big hunk of lead  (E major) 
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If  (G major) you don't re (F major) spond to romance
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 (E major)  (D major) Jack, you're  (G major) dead

Verse 2
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When  (G major) a chick is  (F major) smilin'  (C major) at you
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 (E flat major) Even though  (D minor) there's
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 (G major) nothin' said
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You stand there like a  (F major) statue  (D major) 
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Jack, you're  (G major) dead  (B major) 

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Verse 3

You been always kickin'

But you stubbed your toes

When you ups and kicks the bucket

Just like ole man, Mose

Verse 4

When you get no kicks from lovin'

And you blow your top instead

It's a fact that you ain't livin'

Jack, you're dead

Interlude 1
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 (G major)  (C major)  (C sharpdim)  (E major)  (A minor)  (D major)  (G major)  (F major)  (C major)  (A minor)  (E major)  (D major) 
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 (G major)  (C major)  (C sharpdim)  (E major)  (A minor)  (G major)  (E minor)  (B major)  (E major)  (D major)  (G major)  (B major) 
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 (F major)  (C major)  (D major)  (G major)  (C major)  (D major) 
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 (G major)  (C major)  (D major)  (E major)  (A major)  (D major)  (G major)  (C major)  (C sharpdim)  (G major)  (E major)  (A minor)  (D minor) 
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 (G major)  (F major)  (D minor)  (D major)  (G major)  (A major)  (B major)  (E major) 
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 (G major)  (F major)  (C major)  (F major)  (D major)  (G major) 

Verse 5

When you just ain't got nobody

Since you gone and lost your head

Rigor mortise has set in, daddy

Jack, you're dead

Verse 6

What's the use of havin' muscles

If your life hangs by a thread

If you ain't got no red corpuscles

Jack, you're dead

Verse 7
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You been always kickin'  (E major) 
But you stubbed your toes
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 (A major) When you ups and kicks the bucket
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C 
 (D major) Just like  (C major) ole man, Mose
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 (C major) When

Verse 8

you get no kicks from lovin'

And the news begin to spread

All the cats will holler, "Murder"

Jack, you're dead

Verse 9
All the breath has leaked out of you
If your friends gather round the bed
And look at you and say,
"Don't he look natural?"
When that happens to you, daddy
Jack, you're dead