Ballad Of Jim Jones - The Brian Jonestown Massacre

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BALLAD OF JIM JONES
(note: Recording is sped up, impossible to play along with recording w/ harmonica)

CHORDS USED
A (0-0-2-2-2-0
D (x-x-0-2-3-2
E (0-2-2-1-0-0

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)
)

Harmonica (Key of A)
v (blow)
^ (pull)
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I walked to NY

             
 and back from

  
 LA
             
I lived on a m

             
ountain and on

            
ce by the bay
             
i bought an ap

              
artment and I'

             
ve slept in th

  
e hay
            
but theres no 

place thats so

fter than...

             
the living tod

             
ay is just get

            
ting so bad
             
theres a look 

              
on your face a

             
nd it says you

        
ve been had
             
you can take a

              
ll my money bu

             
t just dont ma

       
ke me mad
              
cause theres n


obody meaner t

han...

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I pray to budd

             
ha to allah an

   
d jim
             
I turned to je

             
sus and stayed

            
 there with hi

m
             
I fell in deep

             
 but I learned

        
 how to swim
             
now theres nob

              
ody cleaner th

             
an me or than 


him.

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