Crooked Jack Chords by Colcannon

_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ Come Irishman, both young and stern, with adventure in your soul.
_ There are better ways to spend your days than working down the hall.
_ I [Dm] was tall and through, [Em] all of six foot two, but they [D] broke me across [Am] the back.
[D] By a name I'm known, and it's not my [G] own, [D] they call me Crooked Jack.
_ _ Well the gangers blew, why boy was I, big Jack could do no wrong.
_ And the reason simply was because I could work hard hours and long.
I [Dm] was tall and through, [Em] all of six foot two, [D] but they broke me across [A] the back.
[D] By a name I'm known, and it's not my own, they call me Crooked Jack. _ _ _
Well I've seen men old, before their times, their faces drawn [Am] and grey.
[D] But I never thought, so soon would mine, be lined the self same way.
_ [Dm] I was [F] tall and through, [C] all of six foot two, [D] but they broke me across [E] the back.
[D] By a name I'm known, and it's [G] not my own, [D] they call me Crooked _ Jack.
_ Well I cursed the day, that I went away, to work on the high throw dams.
Our hopes, our fears, our sweat and tears, bound up in shuttering jam. _
[F] I was tall and through, [C] all of six foot two, [D]
but they broke me [A] across the back.
By [D] a name I'm known, and it's not my own, they call me Crooked _ _ Jack. _ _
Well they say that on, a toil is good, for the body and the [Am] soul.
[D] But believe me boys, it's for sweat and blood, that they want you down the hole.
_ [Dm] I was tall and [Am] through, all of six foot [D] two, but they broke me [A] across the back.
[D] By a name I'm known, [G] and it's not my own, [D] they call me [A] Crooked [D] Jack.
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