Key: C major
Intro 1
G
C
Verse 1
Jimmy
come back home
Jimmy
C
F
Jones?
They used to run barefoot through
C
F
children liked to play
Like catching frogs down
at the swimming hole
C
G
Or building castles in the barn out
C
F
Nell and her big brother
Jim.
F
Little
Nell liked to stay close to home while
G
C
always wandering away on too many
G
F
occasions the dinner bell would ring and
it was time for the children to come in for
C
G
the night but all too often it would be
just little
Jimmy
let his supper get cold and go out and take
Jimmy
F
Jones
Jimmy
G
C
back home and make me a promise no more
Jimmy
C
F
Jones
G
C
Dbdim
G
the family heard less and less about their young man.
Em
C
That is, until the day they got that letter
Uncle
C
Sam.
C
and though the platoon was in enemy territory,
F
the commander had decided it was safe for the men to
C
G
stop and rest before returning to the fight.
F
Jimmy
Jones got restless and
wandered off into the
C
night.
Well,
G
F
enough time to warn the man before he fell.
C
G
Yeah, he saved that whole regiment,
but he'd
C
F
been cut down by just one sniper shell.
Well,
Jimmy
hero's welcome,
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C
and all the awards and honors
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F
that a military hero is due.
C
Dm
or limousines, just a long,
C
F
black box
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G
draped in red, white, and blue.
And his little
F
Jim
G
C
little song to him
Jimmy
F
Jones,
Jimmy
Jimmy
C
C
G
Jones
you
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