Crooked Jack

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[Intro]

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Come on Irishmen both young and old
D                      A7
With adventure in your soul
Em                     G
There are better ways to spend your days
D                      A7
Then by working down a hole

[Chorus]

G                   D
I was tall and true all of 6 foot 2
Em                    D
Til they broke me across my back
Em                   G
By a name I'm known that is not my own
D              A7    Em
For they call me crooked Jack

[Verse]

Em                  G
And I curse the day I went away
D                       A7
To work on those hydro dams
Em                       G
All our sweat and tears our hopes and fears
D                        A7
Bound up with shuttering jams

[Chorus]

G                   D
I was tall and true all of 6 foot 2
Em                    D
Til they broke me across my back
Em                   G
By a name I'm known that is not my own
D              A7    Em
For they call me crooked Jack

[Verse]

Em                       G
For I've seen men old before their time
D                     A7
Their faces worn and gray
Em                    G
But I never thought that I myself
D                          A7
Would soon be the self same way

[Chorus]

G                   D
I was tall and true all of 6 foot 2
Em                    D
Til they broke me across my back
Em                   G
By a name I'm known that is not my own
D              A7    Em
For they call me crooked Jack

[Verse]

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And they say that honest toil is good
D                     A7
For the body and the soul
Em                           G
But I'll tell you boys it's for sweat and blood
D                            A7
That they want you down the hole

[Chorus]

G                   D
I was tall and true all of 6 foot 2
Em                    D
Til they broke me across my back
Em                   G
By a name I'm known that is not my own
D              A7    Em
For they call me crooked Jack

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