Simply A One-eyed Jack chords by John Mellencamp

• Capo on 3rd

♫ Intro:

D



♫ Verse 1:
D
The Gypsy King is dealing his cards
            C
From the bottom of the deck
D                  C
 Hasn't won a hand, leastways not as yet
  G
The table's getting angry
             D
Some have folded up their cards
D

Others keep on betting
   C            G/B        G
Even though they know they're playing a loser's game
             D
Looking for the one-eyed Jack

♫ Verse 2:
D
Salome is frying chicken
                     C
And the smell of grease is filling up the room
D                       C
John the Baptist, well he's left the game too soon
G               D
Salome has a frying pan in her hand
       D
She'd like to take out the kind of man
   C      G/B        G
That everyone is watching as she's going after
       D
The one-eyed Jack

♫ Verse 3:
D                       C
Some people want to party others are trying to leave
D
Some are telling stories that are
               C
That are just impossible to believe
  G                 D
The long day's journey is turning into night
D              C       G/B
Salome looks crazy and she's higher than a kite
G
No one is in favor
        D
Of the one-eyed Jack

♫ Instrumental:
A G D D
A G D D
A G C G
C C D D

♫ Verse 4:
D                 C
Money and power is the name of the game
D
It started out as Spit In The Ocean
            C
But things have rapidly changed
    G                  D
It will never go back to the way it used to be
D                  C
Nature deals with no one, what's the cause
  G/B        G
So many eyes will not see
         D
It's the one-eyed Jack

♫ Verse 5:
  D
I'd like to go somewhere safe
           C
Watch the world as it changes
  D
And become a folk singer
                   C
Sing a song that stops corruption and pain
  G
But there's no reason for that now
         D
We're a long way somehow
   D           C        G/B  G
We'd better make a move or become the victim of
          D
That lying one-eyed Jack

♫ Outro:
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