The Ballad Of Johnny Cool chords by Billy May
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Verse 1
(C major) (A minor) (F sharpdim) (E minor) This (A minor) is
the story of (C major) Johnny (E minor) Cool.
It (A minor) tells (D major) the tale of his life. (E minor)
(G major) They say (F major) Johnny was meant (G major) to be,
(E minor) and content to (B major) be,
mixed (F sharpdim) up in (F sharp major) sorrow and (F sharpdim) strife. (D major)
(F sharpdim) He lived (B major) by the (C major) gun and by the (E minor) knife.
Johnny Cool, Johnny Cool
He (B major) lived by the gun and by the night
(E minor) Johnny (C sharpdim) Cool, (E minor) Johnny Cool
(A minor) If you were friendly (C major) to Johnny Cool
(A minor) You were just play (D major) ing the fool
(C major) They (G major) say (F major) Johnny was friend to none
(E minor) Friend to only one
He (B major) went (C sharpdim) by this simple (F sharpdim) rule (F major) (B major)
(F sharpdim) That his (B major) only friend was Johnny Cool
(E minor) Johnny (C sharpdim) Coo, (E minor) Johnny Coo
(C sharpdim) Yes, his (C major) only (B major) friend was Johnny Coo
Johnny (E minor) (C sharpdim) Coo, (E minor) Johnny (C sharpdim) Coo
Because (A major) he thought (A minor) life had abused him
He went on a murderous (E major) fling (B flat major)
(E major) But (A minor) he didn't (C major) know that they (F sharpdim) used him
(F major) Like (F sharpdim) any (B major) old puppet on a string
(E minor) Johnny (C sharpdim) Coo
Love (A minor) never mattered to (E minor) Johnny (C major) Cool
Each (A minor) doll (D major) day him was the (E minor) same
(G major) Till (E minor) (F major) one babe blinked
her eyes at him
(E major) Sighed (E minor) some sighs at (C sharpdim) him
His icy (C major) heart turned (B major) to flame
And Johnny (C major) was never (B major) quite the same
(E minor) Johnny (C sharpdim) Cool, Johnny Cool,
Johnny (C sharp minor) Cool (C sharpdim) (C major) (F sharpdim) (Cdim) (B major) (E minor) (C sharpdim) (B major)
(A minor) One day they caught up
with (C major) Johnny Coole
(C sharpdim) Just (A minor) like they (D major) promised they (E minor) would
(B minor) They (E minor) left real (F major) (D minor) fear of death in him
(E minor) And some breath in him
They (F sharp major) beat him till he (C major) understood
(B major) He (F sharpdim) (B major) paid for his evil ways,
but good (E minor)
And so (B major) ends the story of a fool
(E minor) Johnny Coo
(E minor) The fool that was known
As Johnny Coo (B major) (C major)
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