Key: B minor
Intro 1
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C
G
Am
C
G
Verse 1
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Little Jesse
C
G
Younger was a well respected lad
Am
C
Doing all he could to please
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his mommy and his dad
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G
But he never planned to be the man
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E
They said that he'd become
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C
And somehow or another
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G
Jesse's little baby brother
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Is his father's and his
Em
Am
mother's only son
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Every day the neighbors say
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that it's a dirty shame
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C
The way he spat upon his family and
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scandalized their name
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G
And his parents never really ever
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E
said he'd been disowned
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C
But somehow or another
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G
now his little baby brother
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Is his father's and his
Em
Am
mother's only son
C
Oh, Jesse Younger you're
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a devil not a man
C
Can you dare to treat your
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parents so unkind?
C
You have selfishly refused to live
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your life the way they planned
D
And you've started going your own
E
way and speaking your own mind.
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C
Jesse Younger's parents wonder
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where it all went wrong
Am
C
Now that Jesse's name has turned
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to ashes on their tongues
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G
But he chose to starve asnd try
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E
to carve a future of his own
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C
And he got his druthers because
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G
now his younger brother
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Em
A
Is his father's and his mother's only son.
Em
A
Oh, Jesse Younger,
Em
you're a devil not a man
A
Can you dare to treat your
Em
parents so unkind?
A
You have selfishly refuysed to live your life
Em
the way they planned
A
And you've started going your
own way and speaking your own mind.
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