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"Ballad of Jamie Bee" - John Gorka from "Jack's Crows" 1991

Standard tuning  -  Capo on 5th fret.  I originally wrote this out in C with 
no capo, but I guess this would be a little more authentic. Here's some help tab
showing the little run in the C chord at the end of most of the lines...

       G            G/F           C                            G ... repeat
E |----3-------------3-------|----0-----------------------|----3----/
B |----0-----0-------0----0--|----1----1------------0-1-0-|----0----/
G |----0-------0-----0------0|----0-------------0-2-------|----0----/
D |----0-------------0-------|----2-----------2-----------|----0----/
A |----2---------------------|-3---------3----------------|----2----/
E |-3-------------2----------|----------------------------|-3-------/
    /      /      /     /      /     /     /      /         /     /     



G           G/F#         C
Jamie ran aground out in Ohio

G         G/F#             C
Wife left for the Great Unknown

G                  G/F#        C
He says he's gonna take to the high ground

G        G/F#           C
She will find a place alone


G               G/F#               C
He said he just could not make her happy

G              G/F#            C
That he never tried so hard before

G             G/F#              C 
He'd wake up first and make the coffee

G       G/F#               C
Now the mornings were like war


CHORUS:

          Em                        D
There's a barroom for every way the wind blows

      Em          G              C
And a harness for every mother's son

    Em                              D
You pull your own weight or else it pulls you

        Em         C               G
It gets harder the longer that you run



Jamie's from the last great breed of roadmen
Woody, Jack, and Kerouac and such
But here was a woman he would die for
Beauty no road could ever touch

The town was nearly famous for the glassworks
The factory where they made hoods for the Klan
There's a football hall-of-famer in the phonebook
There's only trouble for an empty man

CHORUS:
There's a barroom for every way the wind blows
And temptation in every substance known
You pull your own weight or else it pulls you
It gets harder the older that you've grown


At home in the Harley-ridden poolhalls
I guess it's best they never had those kids
Closer to the outlaws than the in-laws
They say Jamie's heart don't break but I know it did
(Repeat last line)


He will find some refuge in his music
And the long shot that they will reconcile
The meantime is a mean time and he knows it
Til the day he's back up on the pile

CHORUS:
Now there's headlights heading from Ohio
And there's teardrops saltier than rain
There's taillights to tell a tale still tender
And a cold wind blowing through the night
There's a cold wind blowing through the night