Key: G major
Verse 1
Dm
Eb
Bb
Gm
Well Jesse
was a rovin' gambler
Nine ball was his game
Cm
He kept one step out ahead of his Rep
F
One town out ahead of his fame
Verse 2
Gm
I think I mighta seen him in Clovis
But the place was kinda loud
Cm
Even so, it was a long time ago
F
When my head sorta
stayed in a cloud
Verse 3
Bb
There's a lotta green in the city
F
That you can't cut thick or thin
Cm
There's a lot of green
between fat and lean
F
That you might never see again,
Dm
Eb
oh, Jesse
Bb
Gm
You might never see again
Verse 4
Gm
Well I know I saw him in Shreveport
The time this song's about
Cm
I was hangin' in town 'cause
the river was down
F
Like my sister I was sweatin'
the drought
Verse 5
Gm
He was playin' some kid
from Dallas
Who could out talk a freeway cop
Cm
A day and a half they'd been on a raft
F
Tryin' to play till the other
would drop
Verse 6
Bb
There's a lotta green in the city
F
That you can't cut thick or thin
Cm
There's a lot of green
between fat and lean
F
Dm
Eb
That you might never see again, oh, Jesse
Bb
You might never see again
Verse 7
Gm
Carmen wore a red silk dress
She lean'd beside the coke machine
Cm
She must have been the prize
that was in his eyes
F
It was as clear as gasoline
Verse 8
Gm
Twenty seven hundred on the table
Another twenty five in the dark
Cm
Dallas was talkin' up a blue streak
F
As Jesse reached for the chalk
Verse 9
Gm
The room got deathly quiet
The newsboy shut his mouth
Cm
The cold north wind changed
it's mind again
F
And blew lazy from the south
Verse 10
Gm
The whippoorwills quit singin'
Not even the judge did laugh
Cm
When Jesse Justice chalked his saber
F
And sliced the 9 in half
Verse 11
Bb
There's a lotta green in the city
F
That you can't cut thick or thin
Cm
There's a lot of green
between fat and lean
F
That you might never see again,
Dm
Eb
oh, Jesse
Bb
You might never see again
Outro 1
Bb
Gm
Cm
F
Gm
Cm
F
Dm
Eb
Bb
F
Cm
F
Bb
F
Cm
F
Bb
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