G

[Verse]
     Bm         Am            C        G
Your weary army wandered into Jacksboro
  C               D
a ragged bunch at best
Bm                   Am
stumbled through the hunting grounds
C             G
on to Crego's Row
C                 D
a ragged bunch at best

[Chorus]
Em           A               C         G
Rag pickers, bone pickers of hides and skins
Em              A             C                 G
looting all the riches of the land


[Verse]
    Bm           Am          C            G
The mule drivers fingers are turning into claws
    C               D
his skins are piled high
Bm           Am             C                 G
chewing on a robins wing or sleeping with the whores
    C               D
his skins are piled high

[Chorus]
Em           A               C         G
Rag pickers, bone pickers of hides and skins
Em              A             C              G
looting all the riches of the land


[Bridge]
D                                          G
All the men are going to collect their salaries
D                                              G
After spending fifteen days upon the great prairee
D                       C                   G
Opium and whiskey gonna dull what they have seen
D                       C                   G
Opium and whiskey gonna make them sleep and dream

Em A C     Em A C     G

[Verse]
Bm              Am               C            G
Triumph doesn't last too long it passes oh so quick
     C               D
your money's running short
Bm            Am                  C                  G
late into the night time you just gorge until you're sick
     C               D
your time is running short

[Chorus]
Em           A               C         G
Rag pickers, bone pickers of hides and skins
Em              A             C              G
looting all the riches of the land


[Verse]
     Bm         Am              C       G
Your weary army wandered out of Jacksboro
  C               D
a ragged bunch at best
Bm                   Am
stumbled through the hunting grounds
   C        G
to kill the buffalo
  C               D
a ragged bunch at best

[Chorus]
Em           A               C         G
Rag pickers, bone pickers of hides and skins
Em              A             C
looting all the riches of the land
Em              A             C
looting all the riches of the land