Crooked Jack Chords

Capo:4th fret; Key G#m

[Verse 1]
Em                   C        D
Come Irish men both thick and strong
     Em                D
with adventure in your soul
Em                       C          D
There are better ways to spend your days
Em           D      Em
than toilin' down a hole
 
 
[Chorus]
      G                     D
I was tall and true, all of six foot two
          G                  D
till they broke me across the back
Em                        C      D
By a name I'm known, it's not my own
     Em      D       Em
They call me Crooked Jack
 
 
[Verse 2]
Em                    C       D
The gangers blue-eyed boy was I
    Em               D
Big Jack could do no wrong
Em                C   D
The reason simply was because
        Em        D         Em
I could work hard hours and long
 
 
[Verse 3]
 Em                     C             D
I've seen men grow old before their time,
Em                   D
their faces dark and gray
Em                    C       D
I never thought that I would find
Em               D        Em
My face in the self same way
 
[Chorus]
      C                     D
I was tall and true, all of six foot two
          Em                  C
till they broke me across the back
Em                        C      D
By a name I'm known, it's not my own
     Em      D       Em
They call me Crooked Jack
 
 
[Verse 4]
  Em                C      D
I cursed the day I went away
Em                        D
to work on those Hydro dams
Em                     C          D
For sweat and tears or hope and fear
Em            D         Em
bound up a shuddering jams
 
 
[Chorus]
      C                     D
I was tall and true, all of six foot two
          Em                  C
till they broke me across the back
Em                        C      D
By a name I'm known, it's not my own
     Em      D       Em
They call me Crooked Jack
 
 
[Final Verse]
 Em                    C        D
They say that honest toil is good
     Em               D
for the spirit and the soul
Em                         C       D
but I tell you boys it's sweat and blood
Em             D           Em
that they want you down a hole