Get Behind The Mule Chords by Tom Waits

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[C] _ I'm out of your damn smoke, Jimmy the Harper with a hard little pistol and [Am] a lariat.
[D] You're going to the bottom, [C] going down the drain.
[D#] Since you wasn't big enough to carry it, you [D] got to get behind the [G] mule, yeah.
[Dm] In the morning, them clowns.
Got to get behind the mule.
In the morning, them clowns.
You got to get behind the mule.
_ In the morning, them [C] clowns.
Get [Dm] behind the mule.
In the morning, them [D] clowns.
_ Chopper, chopper, the axe in the woods.
You got to meet me by the fall down [C] tree.
[Dm] Shoveled old dirt upon a coffin lid.
And I know they're coming looking for me, boys.
I [D] know they're coming looking for me.
You got to get behind the mule, yeah.
[F] [C] In the morning, them clowns.
[Dm] Get behind the mule.
In the morning, them clowns.
Get behind the mule.
[G#] In the [D] morning, them _ clowns.
Get behind the [Dm] mule.
In the morning, them clowns.
_ [D] _
Big Jack girl was [A] eight foot one.
And he stood in the road and he cried.
He couldn't make her love him, couldn't make her stay.
[D#] Tell the [A#] good Lord that he tried to get [Dm] behind the mule, yeah.
[A] In the morning, them [Dm] clowns.
Get behind the mule.
In the morning, [D] them clowns.
You got to get behind the mule.
In the morning, them clowns.
You got to get [Dm] behind the mule.
In the [D] morning, them [Dm] clowns. _
Dusty trail from Atchison to [D] Placerville.
On the wreck of the Weaverville stage.
[Dm] You look like baby [C] boy lemonade.
[Dm] I was stirring my brandy with a nail, boy.
[Dm] Stirring my [D] brandy with a nail.
[B] You got to get behind the [Dm] mule.
In the morning, them clowns.
Get behind the mule.
In the morning, them clowns.
You got to get behind the mule.
[A] In the morning, them clowns.
[Dm] Get behind the mule.
In the morning, them clowns. _ _ _ _ _
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[D] _ _ [A] _ [G] _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
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[Dm] _ _ _ _ Rampaging sons of the Witter James,
Jack the Cutter and the [D] Parkmark Kid.
[A] They had to stand [D] naked at the bottom of the cross.
Tell the good Lord what they [Dm] did.
Tell the good [D] Lord what they did.
You got [Dm] to get behind the mule.
In the [D] morning, them clowns.
Get [Dm] behind the mule.
In the morning, them clowns.
You got to get behind the mule.
In the morning, them clowns.
Get behind the mule.
[D] In the [Dm] morning, them clowns. _ _
I was feeding birds on the power line.
And I was feeding bacon with birdie Joe Holtz.
[D] I'm digging all the way [G] to China with [A] a silver spoon.
While the hangman fumbles with the new sword.
[Dm] The hangman fumbles with the new sword.
You got to get behind the mule.
In the morning, them clowns.
[D] Get behind the mule.
In the morning, them clowns.
[Dm] You got to get behind the mule. _
In the morning, them clowns.
_ Get behind the mule. _
In the morning, them clowns.
_ [Am] [D] In your head to the wisdom post.
[C#] In your eye to the line.
[D] Never [C#] let the weeds get higher than the garden.
Always keep a sapphire in [C#] your mind.
Always keep a diamond in your mind.
You [D] got to get behind the mule.
[F] _ [D] In the morning, them clowns.
[Dm] You got to get behind the mule.
_ [Am] In the morning, them [Dm] clowns.
You got to get behind the mule.
In the morning, them clowns.
You got to get behind the mule.
_ In the morning, them clowns. _
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_ _ [Dm] _ your head to the wisdom post.