Chords for Tom Paxton - Sully's Pail (Live 1961)

_ _ This [G#] is my _ personal favorite song.
It was written by a man named Dick Gibbons
while he was mining in Butte, Montana _
about five years ago.
It's a true story. _ _ _ _
This accident told about in the song
took place about 20 years ago
and when Dick was working in this mine _
a couple of the people were still there
that had been in the accident.
_ _ [B] _ _ It's called Sully's Pale. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ I've a thing or two to tell ya
_ [Em] that I think you oughta [B] know
_ about that rusty bucket
Sully carries down [F#] below.
_ [B] You're not the first one, stranger,
[E] that has laughed at [B] Sully's Pale.
_ _ You're the only one that's laughing now.
The rest has heard this tale. _
_ _ Sure, when we was young and handsome
[E] had some ten years in [B] the game. _
Old Sully had a partner
and Jim Riley was his [F#] name.
They [B] had knocked about together
Bingham, Butte and Coeur d'Alene _
and they brawled in every bar room
_ from Ely to Fort McLean. _ _ _
Now me and old Ted Johnson
sure you'll not remember him.
We was working at the Rarus
had a stoke with Sully [F#] and Jim.
The [B] four of us together
we was working side by side.
That's how come I chance to be there
_ on the night Jim Riley.
[F#] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Well a-blastin' had been easy
it was [E] coming out like [B] sand.
And we was muckin' out the ore
those days we mucked by [F#] hand.
We was nearly finished
and I hadn't heard a sound
but something must have happened
cause Jim Riley [F#] yelled,
[B] bad ground.
_ _ Well when we headed for the timberin'
Sully must have took a spill
_ cause when we looked back in there
he was pinned beneath [F#] his drill.
_ [B] The ceiling it was grownin' now
[B] all set to drop the lid.
And Sully pinned beneath his drill
_ was sobbin' _ [F#] _ like a kid. _ _ _
Well there's men can watch their partners die
not throw their lives away.
_ Riley wasn't one of them
he wasn't [F#] built that way.
_ _ [B] As soon as he seen what happened
hey hold on there Sully he cried. _
And before he had the words out
he had thrown the drill _ aside. _ _
Well they come around the ore cut
_ [Em] Riley wearin' a big grin
_ yes he never knew what happened
_ when the hangin' wall _ [F#] came in.
_ _ _ [B] Sully reached the timberin'
_ his face as white as chalk
_ and Riley two yards back of him
_ caught fifteen tons.
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ _ That day Sully's pail was buried
he [F#] ate from Riley's pail [B] too
_ _ and he's carried that same bucket now
_ for more than [F#] twenty years.
_ _ [B] So you can laugh at Sully
because he's mean and drinks a lot _
but don't laugh at Sully Bucket _
that's the only [F#] friend _ _ [B] he's got. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _