My Friend Jim chords by Doc Watson
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Verse 1
(C major) (G major) (D major) (G major) My pal was a
straight (C major) young (G major) cowboy
Honest (C major) and upright and (G major) square
But he (C major) turned to a gunman and (G major) a gambler
And a bad woman took him there (D major)
Quick (G major) er and surer (C major) in (G major) gunplay
Till his (C major) heart and his body lay (G major) dead
When old (C major) Carol insulted her pic (G major) ture,
Jim (D major) filled him full of (G major) laughter. (D major) (G major)
All night long (C major) we (G major) trailed him
through (C major) Mesquite and Chapar (G major) ral,
And I (C major) couldn't help but
think of that (G major) wo man
as I saw him pitch and (D major) fall.
If (G major) she'd been the pal (C major) that she should (G major) have,
He (C major) might have been raising a (G major) son,
Instead (C major) of out there on the (G major) prairie,
To die (D major) by a ranger's (G major) gun. (D major) (G major) (C major) (G major) (C major) (G major)
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Now death's slow sting (C major) did not (G major) trouble
As the (C major) light in his eyes grew dim
(G major) But where (C major) we were putting his
(G major) body was all that were a (D major) gem
And (G major) as (C major) we all grouped around (G major) him,
the blood (C major) from his wounds flowed (G major) red
He lif (C major) ted his head on his (G major) elbow,
then he (D major) whispered to me and (G major) said
Bury me out (C major) on the (G major) prairie
So the (C major) coyotes can howl on my (G major) grave
Don't (C major) leave me here in the bad (G major) lands
From the varmints my bones (C major) flee safe (D major)
Wrap (G major) me up (C major) in my (G major) blanket
Then (C major) bury me deep in the (G major) ground
And (C major) cover my grave all (G major) over
With (D major) boulders huge and (G major) round (D major) (G major) (D major) (G major)
So we buried him out (C major) on the prairie, (G major)
and the (C major) coyotes still howl o 'er his (G major) grave.
But his (C major) soul is now rest (G major) ing
from the unkind touch she gave. (D major)
There's (G major) many a lone (C major) some (G major) cowboy
who'll (C major) ride with that pile of (G major) stones.
Then (C major) think of some similar wo (G major) man
And (D major) envy Jim's moldering (G major) ball
Outro 1
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My Friend Jim
Doc Watson
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