Chords for John Prine - Sam Stone

[E] for us and all the way through the show.
_ Okay, see you John.
_ _ _ _ _ [C#m]
This is [D#] a song I wrote a couple years ago [B] _ after I got out of the army.
_ _ _ [D#] _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _ [F]
[E] Sam Stone _ came home [A] to his wife and family _ _
[B] after serving in the conflict [E] overseas
_ and _ _ _ the time that he served had [A] shattered all his nerves. _
[B] He left a little shrapnel in [E] his knee
[A] _ [E] but _ _ [A] the morphine eased the pain _
and the grass grew around his brain _
[F#] and gave him all the confidence [B] he lacked
_ _ _ _ _ with [F#] a purple heart and a monkey on [B] his back.
_ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ [D#m]
[E] There's a hole in daddy's arm [B] where [F#m] all the money goes. _ _ _ _
[A] _ Jesus Christ died for nothing, [B] I suppose. _ _ _
[E] Little pictures have big ears. _
[C#m] Don't stop to count the years.
_ [F#]
Sweet songs never last too [B] long on broken _ radios. _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C#m] _ [D#]
[E] Sam Stone's welcome home _ [A] didn't last too long. _ _ _ _
[B] He went to work when he'd spent his last [E] dime
_ _ _ _ and Sammy took to stealing _ when he [A] got that empty feeling
_ [B] for a hundred dollar habit [A] _ [B] without [E] overtime
_ [A] _ [E] and _ _ [A] the gold rolled through his veins like a thousand railroad _ trains.
[F#] He eased his mind in the hours that he [B]
chose
_ _ _ _ _ [F#] while the kids ran around wearing other [B] people's clothes.
_ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ [D#m]
[E] There's a hole in daddy's [B] arm where all [F#m] the money goes. _ _ _ _
_ [A] Jesus Christ died for nothing, [B] I suppose. _ _ _
[E] Little pictures have big ears. _
[C#] Don't stop to count the years.
[C#m] _
[F#] Sweet songs never last too [B] long on broken _ radios.
[D#m] _ _
[E] _ _ _ Sam _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C#m] _ [B] _
[E] Stone was alone _ [A] when he popped his last balloon _ _
[B] _ climbing walls while sitting in [E] a chair.
_ _ _ _ Well, he played his last request _ [A] while a room smelled just like death
with [B] an _ overdose [A] [B] hovering in the [E] [A] air.
_ [E] _ _ _ [A] But life had lost its fun.
_ There was nothing to be done
_ but [F#] trade his house that he bought [A#] on the GI [B]
Bill
_ _ _ _ _ [F#] for a flag draped casket on a local _ [B] hero's hill.
_ _ _ _ _ [C#] _ [D#]
[E] There's a hole in _ daddy's arm [B]
where [F#m] all the money goes. _ _ _
_ [A] _ Jesus Christ died for [B] nothing, I suppose. _ _
[E] Little pictures have big ears. _
[C#] Don't stop to count the years. _
[F#] Sweet songs never last too long [B] on broken _ _ radios. _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _