Jim Dean of Indiana
Jim Dean of Indiana

Jim Dean of Indiana easy guitar chords by Phil Ochs

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Fret 2

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  • Am

  • G

  • D

  • C

  • F

  • Em

  • Bm

    2

  • Am

  • G

  • D

  • C

  • F

  • Em

  • Bm

    2
    • Intro 1


    Verse 1
    It was on 
    an Indiana 

    farm 
    in 
    the middle 
    of 
    the 
    coun
    try 

    Growin' in 
    the fields 
    of grain, 

    Jim 
    Dean 
    of Indiana 

    His mother 
    died 
    when 
    he was 
    a 
    boy, 

    his father 
    was 
    a stranger 

    Marcus 
    Winslow 
    took 
    him in, 

    nobody 
    seemed 
    to 
    want him 

    The hired 
    man 
    sang 
    like 
    a 
    storm, 

    some
    times 
    he'd 
    beat 
    him 

    'Cause 
    he 
    would never 
    do 
    the chores, 

    he 
    was 
    lost 
    in dream
    ing 

    He never 
    seemed 
    to find 
    a 
    play 

    with the flat
    lands 
    an
    d the farmers 

    So he 
    had 
    to leave 
    one day, 

    he 
    said 
    to 
    be 
    an 
    act
    or 

    Once 
    he'd come 
    back 
    to 
    the farm 

    with 
    starlets from 
    the 
    stages 

    They 
    locked 
    themselves 
    inside 
    his 
    room, 

    the 
    people 
    turned 
    their faces 

    A neigh
    bor 
    ran 
    from the movie 
    house, 

    chick
    ens 
    they 
    were scattered 

    He 
    swore 
    he saw 
    upon 
    the screen, 

    Jim 
    Dean 
    of Indiana 

    He 
    played 
    a boy 
    without 
    a 
    home, 

    torn 
    with no 
    tomorrow 

    Reaching 
    out 
    to touch 
    someone, 

    a 
    stranger 
    in 
    the shadow 

    The Winslows 
    left 
    for the movie 
    town, 

    they drove 
    across 
    the country 

    They 
    hoped 
    that he 
    would 
    stay 
    around 
    and 

    they hoped 
    he would 
    be friendly 

    He 
    talked 
    to them 
    for 
    half 
    an hour 

    but 
    he 
    was 
    busy 
    racing 

    He left 
    for 
    the Grapevine 
    Road, 

    they 
    left 
    for 
    Indiana 

    Then Marcus 
    heard 
    on the 
    ra

    dio 
    that a movie 
    star 
    was dying 

    He 
    turned 
    the tuner 
    way down 
    low, 

    so 
    Ortense could 
    go 
    on sleep
    ing 

    It 
    was not 
    until 
    they reached 
    the 
    farm 

    where the hired 
    man 
    was waiting 

    The 
    wind 
    rushed silent 
    through 
    the grain, 

    it was 
    just 
    as 
    they 
    had told 
    him 

    They 
    buried 
    him 
    just 
    down 
    the road, 

    a 
    mile 
    from 
    the farm 
    house 

    That is 
    where I 
    placed 
    a flower 

    for 
    Jim 
    Dean 
    of 
    Indiana. 


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