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