The Man from God Knows Where chords by
Tom Russell

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Key: A minor•

Intro 1

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Am

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Verse 1

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Come gather round me children,

G

G

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Am

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a story I will tell

I've been around since Jesus

G

G

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Am

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met the woman at the well

C

C

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I've walks these roads ten thousand years,

C

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E

E

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I'm a ragtime millionaire

Am

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I am the rake and the ramblin' saint,

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G

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the man from god knows where.

Verse 2

Am

Am

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Oh, they hung me in Downpatrick, up

G

G

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Am

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near St.Patrick's tomb

But my ghost rose up in the peat fire

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G

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Am

Am

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smoke toward the rising of the moon

C

C

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Now as I drift through your villages,

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C

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Am

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E

E

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all the maidens stop and stare

Am

Am

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There goes old Tom the vagabond,

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G

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Am

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the man from god knows where.

Verse 3

C

C

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Am

Am

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So its rise up all you ancestors,

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C

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and dance upon your graves

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C

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I've come to hear your voices now

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Am

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E

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so maybe I'll be saved

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Cursed are we who forget the past,

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G

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but pray and don't despair

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Am

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My song is might haunt your dreams tonight,

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Am

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I'm the man from god knows where

I've slept beneath your bridges near your oil refineries

Verse 4

C

C

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I've gambled on your

river boats,

Shenandoha; Kanakee

I'm the homeless lad, I'm the orphan child, leaves

of grass sewn through my hair

Yeah, me and old Walt Whitman,

Am

Am

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we're the men from god knows where

I've rode the rods on steam trains with a banjo on my knee

While the ghost of Stepan

Verse 5

C

C

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Foster whispered

lines to me

Of the storefront curch and the chain

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G

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gang choir; Black sorrow filled the air

Then Stephen died on a dross house floor, like a man

from god knows where

Verse 6

C

C

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I've heard the sound of Indian drums,

I've heard the bugles blow

Before they re- wrote history, into a

Wild West show

My kin sailed toward America to

Am

Am

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steal their Indian ground

They passed bill Cody's

ships, European bound

Verse 7

E

E

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So lock up all your daughters,

your whiskey and your gold

I have come to claim my bounty,

for the lies that I've been told

Am

Am

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And as I look out on this crowd tonight,

I see most of you don't care

Come lift your glass, reveal your past, to the

G

G

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Am

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man from god

knows where

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