Jimmy Jones chords by
Junior Brown
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Key: C major
Intro 1
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C

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Verse 1
F
F

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Jimmy Jones,
Jimmy
C
C

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Jones, won't you please
come back home
G
G

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And make me a promise,
C
C

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no more will you roam
F
F

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I'm tired of waiting,
C
C

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I've been waiting so long
G
G

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Won't you please come home,
Jimmy
C
C

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F
F

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Jones?
They used to run barefoot through
C
C

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all the fields of the countryside
G
G

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Playing all the games that
C
C

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F
F

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children liked to play
Like catching frogs down
at the swimming hole
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C

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G

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Or building castles in the barn out
C
C

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of all those big bales of hay
F
F

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Yeah those kids were about as close
C
C

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as any two siblings could get.
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G

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There was a
C
C

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whole lot of love between her and him.
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Dm

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Little sister
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C

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F
F

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Nell and her big brother
Jim.
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C

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But there was one difference between the
G
G

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two children that became known even
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C

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in those early days.
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F

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Little
Nell liked to stay close to home while
C
C

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Jimmy
F
F

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Jones was
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G

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C
C

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always wandering away on too many
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F
F

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occasions the dinner bell would ring and
it was time for the children to come in for
C
C

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G
G

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the night but all too often it would be
just little
C
C

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Nell because
Jimmy
F
F

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Jones would be nowhere in
C
C

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sight so dad would have to
let his supper get cold and go out and take
G
G

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a ride searching up and down every
C
C

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inch of that big old countryside
Jimmy
F
F

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Jones
Jimmy
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C

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Jones won't you please come
G
G

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C
C

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back home and make me a promise no more
F
F

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we're wrong I'm tired of waiting I've
C
C

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been waiting so long won't
G
G

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you please come home
Jimmy
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C

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F
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Jones
C
C

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Well, as the years went by,
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G

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C
C

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G
G

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the family heard less and less about their young man.
Em
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C
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That is, until the day they got that letter
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F

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telling how he'd gone off to fight for
Uncle
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C

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Sam.
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It said there'd been a lull in the battle,
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C

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and though the platoon was in enemy territory,
F
F

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the commander had decided it was safe for the men to
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C

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G
G

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stop and rest before returning to the fight.
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C

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True to form, while the other men slept,
F
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Jimmy
Jones got restless and
wandered off into the
C
C

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night.
Well,
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G

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Jimmy discovered that the platoon was about
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C

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to be ambushed and ran back in just
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F
F

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enough time to warn the man before he fell.
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C

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G
G

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Yeah, he saved that whole regiment,
but he'd
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C

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F
F

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been cut down by just one sniper shell.
Well,
Jimmy
C
C

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Jones was to receive a
hero's welcome,
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G

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C
C

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and all the awards and honors
G
G

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F
F

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that a military hero is due.
C
C

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But sadly, there would be
G
G

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no ticker tape parades
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C

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Dm
Dm

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or limousines, just a long,
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F
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black box
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G
G

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draped in red, white, and blue.
And his little
C
C

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Nell looked down at her big brother
F
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Jim
C
C

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For the last time she sang her
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C
C

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little song to him
Jimmy
F
F

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Jones,
Jimmy
C
C

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Jones, what took you so long?
G
G

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I've needed you here ever
C
C

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since you've been gone
F
F

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I'm tired of waiting,
C
C

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I've been waiting so long
G
G

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An d now you've finally come home
Jimmy
C
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G
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Jones
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