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Simply A One-eyed Jack by John Mellencamp

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♫ Intro: 

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

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

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

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

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

♫ Outro: 
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