Billys Bones chords by The Pogues

Chords with lyrics

***Billy's Bones - by Shane MacGowan
from the album "Rum Sodomy & The Lash"

Billy's Bones - as perfomed by The Pogues

Intro Melody (2x):
  FF          Bb majorBb         FF          Bb majorBb   FF
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BB|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G+G|---0-2-5-3-2-0------0-2-0-0----0-2-0-0-----0-2-5-3-2-0------0-2-0-0-------|
D MajorD|-3-------------3--3----------3-----------3-------------3--3-----------3-3-|
A augmentedA|---------------------------------------3----------------------------3-----|
E MajorE|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|


FF			 Bb majorBb
Billy ran around with the rare old crew
    FF    C majorC      FF
And he knew an Arsenal from Tottenham blue
     FF     Bb majorBb	    FF   C majorC
We'd be a darn sight better off if we knew
FF 			Bb majorBb
Where Billy's bones are resting now

Billy saw a copper and he hit him in the knee
And he took him down from six foot to five foot three
Then he hit him fair and square in the do-re-mi
That copper won't be having any family

Bb majorBb				 FF		    C majorC
Hey Billy son where are you now, don't you know that we need you now
   FF  Bb majorBb     FF    C majorC  FF			 Bb majorBb
With aratata and the old kow-tow where are Billy's bones resting now


Billy went away with the peace-keeping force
'Cause he liked a bloody good fight of course
Went away in an old khaki van to the banks of the river Jordan
Billy saw the Arabs and he had 'em on the run
When he got 'em in the range of his sub-machine gun
Then he had the Israelis in his sights, went a ra-ta-ta
And they ran like Shiites

Hey Billy son where are you now
Don't you know that we need you now
With a ra-ta-ta and the old kow-tow
Where are Billy's bones resting now

Intro Melody (2x)

Hey Billy son where are you now
Don't you know that we need you now
With a ra-ta-ta and the old kow-tow
Where are Billy's bones resting now

One night Billy had a rare old time,
Laughing and singing on the Lebanon line
Came back to camp not looking too pretty
Never even got to see the Holy City

  FF			   Bb majorBb
Now Billy's out there in the desert sun
    FF		   C majorC
And his mother cries when the morning comes
	  FF	  Bb majorBb     FF     C majorC
And there's mothers crying all over this world

For their poor dead darling boys and girls

Hey Billy son where are you now
Don't you know that we need you now
With a ra-ta-ta and the old kow-tow
Where are Billy's bones resting now

FF      Bb majorBb FF  C majorC
Have a Billy holiday
FF     Bb majorBb FF  C majorC
Born on a Monday
FF	   Bb majorBb FF  C majorC
Married on a Tuesday
FF     Bb majorBb  FF  C majorC
Drunk on a Wednesday
  FF      Bb majorBb  FF  C majorC
Got plugged on a Thursday
FF     Bb majorBb FF  C majorC
Sick on a Friday
FF     Bb majorBb  FF  C majorC
Died on a Saturday
FF          Bb majorBb C majorC FF F
Buried on a Sunday