"Joe Black" by Paul Sanchez
from "Wasted Lives and Bluegrass"
G D G
Joe Black, Joe Black When you gonna come on back
G D G
to the docks where you work a double shift for a flat
C G
and if you do it's gonna be different
C D
this time you're not working for the man
G
you're gonna be working for Joe Black Joe Black
D G
When you gonna come on back
Joe Black Joe Black When you gonna come on back
To the wife that you love With the little baby sitting on her lap
And all the kids you said you had to have
They're growing tall they're growing wild
They're growing up without Joe Black Joe Black
When you gonna come on back
Joe Black Joe Black Meaner every day that's a fact
Why'd he change? Was it the pain Of carrying the world on his back
No one knew till it was too late
About the thing growing silently inside his brain Joe Black
Joe Black When you gonna come on back
Joe Black Joe Black Lying in the street on his back
With the blood from in his head And the poker money in his sack
That was gonna buy the Easter shoes
For his family now they'll have to use it to bury him
Joe Black Joe Black When you gonna come on back
You can throw in:
A|----0-2-- between some chord changes, usually
E|--3------ from G to C (sometimes from G to D)
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