Matty And Josie chords by Harry James Angus

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Verse 1
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This song is called Maddie and Josie.
It's a love song,
although it doesn't end well.
Maddy saw Josie on a Tuesday
She was totally strung out
They'd gone to primary school together
It's funny how some things turn out
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He  remembered  how they
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used to sit upon the hill
And clean the chalky dusters
from the school
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He took her home to make her better
They made pumpkin soup together
Her eyes, they changed like the weather
And they soon made love together
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And   when her eyes had cleared
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She saw him standing in the bath
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room light
And realized she would love him
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Till the end  of time
Mattie worked down at the meat works
with all the pigs and all the blood.
Sometimes the smell of death
follows him home
and sometimes he dreams of the flood.
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He would wake to find
that golden face
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asleep beside his pillow
and he thought that he might lover
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till the end  of time.
One night Josie was making coffee,
Matty came home kind of early,
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he was carrying an old sack of bones,
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he said, I killed a man a long time ago,
he said, you don't have to know
the when or the why,
just believe me that he was bad
and he deserved to die,
I buried him down by the riverside
a long time ago,
but now they're building
those new movie studios
so I had to dig him up,
I'm gonna put him in the yard,
and you can't tell anybody babe
I know that this is hard,
but you can't tell anybody if you love me,
you can't tell anybody if you love me.
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That night they made love so passionately
and he smelled of earth
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as he lay beside her in the moonlight and she cried because
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she knew that she would love him until the end of time
Mm. Ah. Ah.
Next day, Josie went to the policemen.
She said, my boyfriend, he's killed a man.
She said, he's buried in our garden.
and they said you're doing the right thing,
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'am.
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They went around to Matty's house
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with picks and shovels.
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Josie felt that hot old desert wind
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coming down the line.
The cops started digging.
Cops started digging.
Cops started digging in the yard.
Cops started digging.
The cops started digging.
Cops started digging in the yard
Soon, they found a sack
big old brown sack.
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They opened it up on the grass
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And underneath the Hessian was
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a pile of bones
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that looked like
they could have been buried
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since before the dawn of time
But they weren't human bones
they were pig bones
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While the cops were standing around,
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Matty came home and
Sorry for the trouble, fellas, he said
And he explained what he'd
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done
and the cops were quite impressed
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He said, I wanted to know
if I could trust her with my life
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But baby, you're a junkie, not a wife
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I'm glad I made this little test
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How could I marry someone
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who would turn me in for murder?
You're not worth it
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the cops silently agreed
as they turned their backs
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and started to shovel all
the earth back in
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Matty hung his head in sadness
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because he knew now
that the person that he loved
was not this person and that
night Josie felt the cold space
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beside her pillow in
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the moonlight.
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And she cried because she knew
that she would love him
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until the end of time.