Grateful Dead – Brown Eyed Women (Ukulele)

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C#m                        E
Gone are the days when the ox fall down,

B                                 A
You take up the yoke and plow the fields around.

C#m                        E
Gone are the days when the ladies said, "Please,

A                                   E
Gentle Jack Jones won't you come to me."

B
Brown-eyed women and red grenadine,

    A                        E          B
The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean.

A                             E            C#m
Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down,

       F#m                     A        E
And it looks like the old man's gettin' on.

C#m                        E
1920 when he stepped to the bar,

B                                 A
Drank to the dregs of the whiskey jar.

C#m                        E
1930 when the wall caved in,

A                                   E
He paid his way selling red-eyed gin.

B
Brown-eyed women and red grenadine,

    A                        E          B
The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean.

A                             E            C#m
Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down,

       F#m                     A        E
And it looks like the old man's gettin' on.

C#m                        E
Delilah Jones was the mother of twins,

B                                 A
Two times over and the rest were sins.

C#m                        E
Raised eight boys, only I turned bad,

A                                   E
Didn't get the lickin's that the other ones had.

B
Brown-eyed women and red grenadine,

    A                        E          B
The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean.

A                             E            C#m
Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down,

       F#m                     A        E
And it looks like the old man's gettin' on.

Bm                   A        E
Tumble down shack in Big Foot county.

Bm                      A          E
Snowed so hard that the roof caved in.

C#m     B             A        G#m
Delilah Jones went to meet her God,

        A                           E
And the old man never was the same again.

Bm                   A        E
Daddy made whiskey and he made it well.

Bm                      A          E
Cost two dollars and it burned like hell.

C#m     B             A        G#m
I cut hick'ry just to fire the still,

        A                           E
Drink down a bottle and be ready to kill.

B
Brown-eyed women and red grenadine,

    A                        E          B
The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean.

A                             E            C#m
Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down,

       F#m                     A        E
And it looks like the old man's gettin' on.

C#m                        E
Gone are the days when the ox fall down,

B                                 A
You take up the yoke and plow the fiends around.

C#m                        E
Gone are the days when the ladies said' "Please,

A                                   E
Gentle Jack Jones won't you come to me."

B
Brown-eyed women and red grenadine,

    A                        E          B
The bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean.

A                             E            C#m
Sound of the thunder with the rain pourin' down,

       F#m                     A        E
And it looks like the old man's gettin' on.

       F#m                      A       E
And it looks like the old man's gettin' on.