Simply A One-eyed Jack chords by John Mellencamp

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 3rd

♫ Intro:

D MajorD


♫ Verse 1:
D MajorD
The Gypsy King is dealing his cards
            C majorC
From the bottom of the deck
D MajorD                  C majorC
 Hasn't won a hand, leastways not as yet
  G+G
The table's getting angry
             D MajorD
Some have folded up their cards
D MajorD
Others keep on betting
   C majorC            G/BG/B        G+G
Even though they know they're playing a loser's game
             D MajorD
Looking for the one-eyed Jack

♫ Verse 2:
D MajorD
Salome is frying chicken
                     C majorC
And the smell of grease is filling up the room
D MajorD                       C majorC
John the Baptist, well he's left the game too soon
G+G               D MajorD
Salome has a frying pan in her hand
       D MajorD
She'd like to take out the kind of man
   C majorC      G/BG/B        G+G
That everyone is watching as she's going after
       D MajorD
The one-eyed Jack

♫ Verse 3:
D MajorD                       C majorC
Some people want to party others are trying to leave
D MajorD
Some are telling stories that are
               C majorC
That are just impossible to believe
  G+G                 D MajorD
The long day's journey is turning into night
D MajorD              C majorC       G/BG/B
Salome looks crazy and she's higher than a kite
G+G
No one is in favor
        D MajorD
Of the one-eyed Jack

♫ Instrumental:
A augmentedA G+G D MajorD D MajorD
A augmentedA G+G D MajorD D MajorD
A augmentedA G+G C majorC G+G
C majorC C majorC D MajorD D MajorD

♫ Verse 4:
D MajorD                 C majorC
Money and power is the name of the game
D MajorD
It started out as Spit In The Ocean
            C majorC
But things have rapidly changed
    G+G                  D MajorD
It will never go back to the way it used to be
D MajorD                  C majorC
Nature deals with no one, what's the cause
  G/BG/B        G+G
So many eyes will not see
         D MajorD
It's the one-eyed Jack

♫ Verse 5:
  D MajorD
I'd like to go somewhere safe
           C majorC
Watch the world as it changes
  D MajorD
And become a folk singer
                   C majorC
Sing a song that stops corruption and pain
  G+G
But there's no reason for that now
         D MajorD
We're a long way somehow
   D MajorD           C majorC        G/BG/B  G+G
We'd better make a move or become the victim of
          D MajorD
That lying one-eyed Jack

♫ Outro:
A augmentedA G+G D MajorD