View Guitar Chords for Billy the bum - chords ver. 1
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Billy the Bum - John Prine ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabbed by: Dave S. Email: [email protected] Tuning: Standard Artist: John Prine Album: Diamonds in the Rough Year: 1972 Intro: Bb F F C FFBilly the bum lived by the thumb and sang of the hobo's deClight He'd Cprove he could run twice as fast as the sun By losing his shadow at Fnight Now he Floved every girl in this curly headed world But no one will know it Bbseems For Bbtwo twisted legs and a Fchildhood disease Left CBilly just a bum in his FdreamsChorus:And Bbhe was just a Fgentle boy, A Creal florescent Flight Cried Bbpennies on Sunday Fmorning, Laughs nickels on Saturday Cnight And your Fbullets they can't harm him Nor your knives tear him aBbpart Humiliation Fkilled him God Cbless his little FheartNow he Flived all alone In a run down home Near the Fside of the old railroad Ctrack Where the Ctrains used to run Carrying freight by the ton And blow the whistle as Billy'd wave Fback But the Fchildren around Billy's home town Seemed to Fhave nothin' better to Bbdo Then Bbrun around his house With their Ftongues from their mouth And make Cfun of that cripped old Ffool(Repeat chorus)Now Fsome folks they wait And some folks they pray For Jesus to rise up Cagain, But none of these folks In their holy cloaks Ever took Billy on as a Ffriend For Fpity's a crime And it ain't worth a dime To a person who's really in Bbneed Just Bbtreat em the same As you Fwould your own name Next Ctime that your heart starts to Fbleed