Richard Thompson – Johnnys Far Away (Guitar)

Dm
Johnny's joined a ceilidh band

Dm
They're known quite well throughout the land, The Drones

Dm
The Drones are signed up on a cruise

Dm
While Tracey's laying in the booze back home

  Bb
She's got herself another man, a smoothie

  Bb
While the kids are in the front room watching movies

     F
She's got him in a head lock, in an arm lock, in a jam

      Am
She says, I can't express myself with my old man

       Dm           G            Bb
While Johnny's far away on the rolling, rolling

       Dm      G         Bb   C   Dm
Johnny's far away on the rolling sea

       Dm           G             Bb
While Johnny's far away on the rolling, rolling

       Dm      G          Bb  C   Dm
Johnny's far away on the rolling sea

        G                 Dm
On the rolling sea, On the rolling sea

         C                 Bb
On the rolling sea, On the rolling sea

Dm
Johnny's cruising out to sea

Dm
And he believes in chastity - for some

Dm
The wealthy widows bill and coo

Dm
He fends off one or two, and then succumbs

       Bb
As they're turning hard-a-port in the Bahamas

       Bb
He's turning her right out of her pyjamas

      F
He's turned her every which way to the rhythm of the sea

     Am
He says, I can't express myself with my old lady

        Dm           G           Bb
While Johnny's far away on the rolling, rolling

    Dm        G          Bb  C    Dm
Johnny's far away on the rolling sea

      Dm            G            Bb
While Johnny's far away on the rolling, rolling

    Dm         G          Bb  C   Dm
Johnny's far away on the rolling sea

        G                   Dm
On the rolling sea, on the rolling sea

        C                    Bb
On the rolling sea, on the rolling sea

Dm
Johnny's home, he opens up his door

Dm
While someone's sneaking out the back

Dm
And Tracey says, you look so poorly

Dm
Sores and all, you need to see the quack

   Bb
She wipes the snot from off the kiddies' noses

   Bb
He charms her with eleven battered roses

      F
And by and by they get down to the job of man and wife

   Am
Back to the old comforts of the missionary life

       Dm           G            Bb
While Johnny's far away on the rolling, rolling

     Dm       G           Bb C   Dm
Johnny's far away on the rolling sea

       Dm           G           Bb
While Johnny's far away on the rolling, rolling

  Dm                      Bb  C   Dm
Johnny's far away on the rolling sea

        G                   Dm
On the rolling sea, on the rolling sea

        C                   Bb
On the rolling sea, on the rolling sea