Sam Jones chords by Richard Thompson

Chords with lyrics

Sam Jones by Richard Thompson
From the Album "You? Me? Us?"


INTRO and OUTRO: This part is also played in between verses.
Transcribed part played over a B minorBm (although it is a Bsus2Bsus2
which is picked)
E MajorE +-------2-0----------------+
BB |-----------2----0---------|
G+G |-----4---------4--4-------|
D MajorD |----4--------4------4-----|
A augmentedA |0h2--------0--------------|
E MajorE +--------------------------+

  B minorBm
Me name is Sam Jones and it's bones me occupation
D MajorD
Chuck your old hocks out for my consideration
B minorBm
Thirty years a bone man, up and down the nation
D MajorD     A augmentedA      B minorBm
Sam Jones deliver them bones

   E minorEm
I've been among the shamrock and I've been among the thistle
 B minorBm
I like it all picked over, clean as a whistle
E minorEm
No sign of meat on, no sign of gristle
G+G           F# minorF#m
Sam Jones deliver them bones

E minorEm
I've seen battlefields white with human ivory
B minorBm
Noble dukes and princes stripped of flesh and finery
E minorEm
When the crows have done their job, they say that's the time for me
G+G            F# minorF#m
Sam Jones deliver them bones

B minorBm
And I even dream of bones when I'm lying very ill

D MajorD
Roomsfull of skeletons a-dancing the quadrille
B minorBm
Rows and rows of skulls singing Blueberry Hill
D MajorD    A augmentedA        B minorBm
Sam Jones deliver them bones

B minorBm
And if you're unburied, the likes of me will find you
D MajorD
You're no good to worms, but you might become the finest glue
B minorBm
We'll grind you up and spread you out as fertiliser, too
D MajorD     A augmentedA      B minorBm
Sam Jones deliver them bones

E minorEm
And I've got a lorry, it's me own boneshaker
B minorBm
Where's there old knuckle joints I'll be the undertaker
E minorEm
I'll come calling 'round just like the butcher and the baker
G+G            F# minorF#m
Sam Jones deliver them bones

  B minorBm
Me name is Sam Jones and it's bones me occupation
D MajorD
Chuck your old hocks out for my consideration
B minorBm
Thirty years a bone man, up and down the nation
D MajorD     A augmentedA      B minorBm
Sam Jones deliver them bones


D MajorD     A augmentedA      B minorBm
Sam Jones deliver them bones
D MajorD       A augmentedA      B minorBm
Oh, Sam Jones deliver them bones
D MajorD     A augmentedA      G+G
Sam Jones deliver them bones