The Ballad of Jamie Bee chords by John Gorka
Intro 1
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Jamie ran aground
Verse 1
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out in Ohio
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Wife left for the great unknown
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He says he's gonna take
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to the high road
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She will find a place alone
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He says he just
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Verse 2
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could not
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make her happy
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That he never tried so hard before
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He'd wake up first and
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make the coffee
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Now the mornings were like war
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There's a barroom
Verse 3
for every
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way the wind blows
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And a harness for every mother's son
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You pull your own weight
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or else it pulls you
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It gets harder the longer
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that you run
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Jamie's from the last
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great breed of roadmen
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Woody, Jack, and Kerouac and such
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But here was a woman
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he would die for
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Beauty no road could ever touch
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Verse 5
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The town was nearly famous
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for the glassworks
The factory where they made
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hoods for the klan
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There's a football hall of famerin
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the phonebook
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There's only trouble for
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an empty man
Verse 6
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There's a barroom for every
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way the wind blows
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And temptation in every
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substance known
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You pull your own weight
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or else it pulls you
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It gets harder the older that you've
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grown
Interlude 1
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Verse 7
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At home in the harley-ridden poolhalls
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I guess it's best they
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never had those kids
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Closer to the outlaws then the in-laws
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They They said Jamie's heart
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don't break but I know it did
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They said Jamie's heart don't
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break but I know it did
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He will find
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some refuge in his music
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And a long shot that they will reconcile
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The meantime is a mean
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time an d he knows it
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Til the day he's back upon the pile
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Now there's headlights
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heading from Ohio
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And there's teardrops salti
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er than rain
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There's taillights to tell a tale still tender
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And a cold wind blowing
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through the night
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There's a cold wind blowing through the
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night
Outro 1
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The Ballad of Jamie Bee
John Gorka
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