Key: Eb major
Verse 1
A
Bm
F#m
Bm
F#m
Ooh, ooh, ooh,
Em
A
G
D
oo h
Bm
F#m
So the voice you now hear
Bm
F#m
Reaching you through the air
Em
A
Comes from me and my lazy leg
G
D
G
High above at our getaway
Bm
F#m
Bm
F#m
In my dreams I kick and scream.
Em
A
I feel the burning fire,
G
Em
but my limb is flat as a country tire.
F#
D
I will confess, I had my doubts
G
D
Anyone would make the haul
A
Bm
From up here on my mountain chair,
D
G
D
it's a long way to fall.
Sit down, Jim, and tell me about your
life down the mountain.
Because there's nothing
A
D
to tell about polio.
Bm
F#m
Signs screamed, quarantine.
Em
A
Did it seem you were up on that pole,
G
Bm
F#m
you were on top of the world?
Bm
F#m
Em
A
G
Em
D
Bm
F#m
Have you heard of the little girl,
Bm
F#m
immortalized as our town,
A
G
Waving crowd, waving to her,
a shiny sign
Bm
F#m
The creak of the chain haunt
Bm
F#m
s my slumber
Em
A
G
There, Aliceville is as still as Tombstone,
Arizona
G
D
she ain't never growin' old
The train don't stop in Aliceville,
G
F#
no, not much, no more
G
D
far beyond our years
A
D
Bm
I am no dark angel,
F#m
D
G
D
you have nothing to fear
Sit down Jim, and tell me about your
A
D
life down the mountain
Cause there's nothing,
G
D
nothing to know about polio
I know you meant no harm
F#
D
If there's something to be told,
G
D
from this that can be had
Bm
D
G
D
what one cannot catch
Tell me Jim,
Bm
A
D
down the mountain
Because there's nothing
Em
D
to tell about polio
Sit down, Jim, and tell me all about
your lives down the mountain
cause there's nothing to
A
D
tell about polio
ooooooo heeeyyyyy
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