3 Chord Joe

3 Chord Joe (C. Cook)

Listen all did you ever know about the rise and fall of 3 chord Joe
He comes around all the time causin’ a fuss
3 chords and a cloud of dust
He was born on a bus in 1965 with a chip on his shoulder and blood shot eyes
Drug up rough hungry and hard by the railroad tracks at that old junk yard

He had a stutter when he talked a sailor’s tongue I’m told
A stagger when he walked with a chain billfold
He ain’t ever gonna be no star
At the Juke Joint Jump or the Cross Town Bar

Well he started out down at the Park & Fight
For free booze and 25 dollars a night
Ruff around the edges as a man can be
Playin’ by the light of the poker machine

She came down town every Saturday night
Her hair all a mess and her jeans on tight
Everybody said hey Joe leave her alone
She had a tear in her eye and a bad man at home

He had a stutter when he talked a sailor’s tongue I’m told
A stagger when he walked with a chain billfold
He ain’t ever gonna be no star
At the Juke Joint Jump or the Cross Town Bar

Joe didn’t know he would wake up dead
A knife in his back and a bullet to the head
He lived by the sword died by the same
Ain’t no body left to carry his name

Listen all did you ever know about the rise and fall of 3 chord Joe
He comes around all the time causin’ a fuss
3 chords and a cloud of dust…..

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