Key: Bb major
Verse 1
Bb
Eb
Bb
Eb
Bb
Eb
Cm
D
Bm
When
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Ab
you got no more assurance
F
G
Than a great big hunk of lead
Bb
Ab
If you don't respond to romance
G
F
Bb
Jack, you're dead
Verse 2
Bb
Ab
Eb
When a chick is smilin' at you
Gb
Fm
Even though there's
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F
You stand there like a statue
Bb
D
Jack, you're dead
Verse 3
But you stubbed your toes
F
Bb
Just like ole man, Mose
Verse 4
Bb
Ab
When you get no kicks from lovin'
F
Fm
And you blow your top instead
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Ab
Eb
Fm
F
It's a fact that you ain't livin'
Interlude 1
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Eb
Edim
G
Cm
F
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Ab
Eb
Cm
G
F
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Eb
Edim
G
Cm
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Gm
D
G
F
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D
G
C
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Eb
Edim
Fm
Ab
Fm
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Eb
F
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Eb
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G
C
F
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Eb
Edim
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G
Cm
Fm
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Ab
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C
D
G
C
F
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Eb
Edim
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F
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Ab
Eb
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F
Bb
Verse 5
Bb
Ab
When you just ain't got nobody
F
Bb
C
Since you gone and lost your head
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Ab
Fm
F
Rigor mortise has set in, daddy
Verse 6
Bb
Ab
Eb
What's the use of havin' muscles
Gb
F
Bb
If your life hangs by a thread
Fm
F
D
Jack, you're dead
Verse 7
But you stubbed your toes
F
Eb
Just like ole man, Mose
Verse 8
Bb
Ab
Eb
you get no kicks from lovin'
Gb
F
And the news begin to spread
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Eb
Fm
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
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