John Mellencamp – Simply A One-Eyed Jack (Guitar)

D
The Gypsy King is dealing his cards

                       C
From the bottom of the deck

D                                    C
 Hasn't won a hand, leastways not as yet

    G
The table's getting angry

                          D
Some have folded up their cards

D
Others keep on betting

     C                        G/B               G
Even though they know they're playing a loser's game

                         D
Looking for the one-eyed Jack

D
Salome is frying chicken

                                          C
And the smell of grease is filling up the room

D                                             C
John the Baptist, well he's left the game too soon

G                              D
Salome has a frying pan in her hand

              D
She'd like to take out the kind of man

     C           G/B               G
That everyone is watching as she's going after

             D
The one-eyed Jack

D                                              C
Some people want to party others are trying to leave

D
Some are telling stories that are

                              C
That are just impossible to believe

    G                                  D
The long day's journey is turning into night

D                            C             G/B
Salome looks crazy and she's higher than a kite

G
No one is in favor

                D
Of the one-eyed Jack

D                                  C
Money and power is the name of the game

D
It started out as Spit In The Ocean

                        C
But things have rapidly changed

        G                                   D
It will never go back to the way it used to be

D                                    C
Nature deals with no one, what's the cause

   G/B                G
So many eyes will not see

                  D
It's the one-eyed Jack

    D
I'd like to go somewhere safe

                      C
Watch the world as it changes

    D
And become a folk singer

                                      C
Sing a song that stops corruption and pain

    G
But there's no reason for that now

                 D
We're a long way somehow

     D                     C                G/B   G
We'd better make a move or become the victim of

                    D
That lying one-eyed Jack