Sam Jones chords

Richard Thompson

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INTRO and OUTRO: This part is also played in between verses. 
Transcribed part played over a Bm (although it is a Bsus2  
which is picked) 
E  +-------2-0----------------+ 
B  |-----------2----0---------| 
G  |-----4---------4--4-------| 
D  |----4--------4------4-----| 
A  |0h2--------0--------------| 
E  +--------------------------+ 

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

     Em 
I've been among the shamrock and I've been among the thistle 
  Bm 
I like it all picked over, clean as a whistle 
Em 
No sign of meat on, no sign of gristle 
G                      F#m 
Sam Jones deliver them bones 
   
Em       
I've seen battlefields white with human ivory 
Bm 
Noble dukes and princes stripped of flesh and finery 
Em 
When the crows have done their job, they say that's the time for me 
G                       F#m 
Sam Jones deliver them bones 

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

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

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

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

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


D         A            Bm 
Sam Jones deliver them bones 
D             A            Bm 
Oh, Sam Jones deliver them bones 
D         A            G 
Sam Jones deliver them bones