Tonalità: C major
Verse 1
C
Smile on me ladies,
G
fill your tin cups with rye
C
Smile on me ladies,
G
C
wish me well when I die
The chaser's the killer,
F
the killer's the king
C
The fool is the money,
G
the money's the thing
C
The numbness is queasy,
F
the queasy turn sick
C
For the sickness there's whiskey
G
and whiskey is quick
C
Some men are cutters
F
and lay down the pines
C
Some men here work
G
the drills in the old mines
C
But I am a plain man
F
and I would do anything
C
Around these hills that means
G
I run whiskey for Prince Farrington.
C
They came one morning
F
took me in chains
C
G
and told me I'd pay for the man I had slain.
C
A priest in a bullet riddled
F
Hudson pulled out of the mud.
C
They said I had left him
G
C
face down in his blood.
F
If the truth be told and rare it is
C
I did take his life,
G
but it was mine or his
C
The priest had stolen two
F
barrels of our grain
C
And I swear I watched it drain away
G
in that driving rain
C
And he pulled a knife
F
and his face turned red
C
And he shouted a Bible verse
G
about the dead
C
He moved like a bear
F
with one foot in a trap
C
And so I dropped him there,
G
and he died like a rat
C
F
And I stand before you, as I stand accused
C
And you'll bury me cold now,
G
but forever amused
C
As Prince Barrington knows,
F
behind these thick walls
C
You can't take a man down,
G
when he's got nowhere else to fall
C
Smile on me ladies,
G
fill your tin cups with rye
C
G
C
Smile on me ladies, wish me well when I die
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