The Band – 4 Pantomime (Guitar)

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[Intro] G G7/D C Fmaj7 x2 [Verse]
Em                    G/D                C6  C
   The management said they were sorry

                     Bm                    Em
For the inconvenience you are suffering

                 G/D                C
And Mr. Booking Agent, please have mercy

                   D
Don't book the jobs so far apart

G              G7             G9
We went up to Griffith Park

C               D
With a fifth of Johnnie Walker red

G                      G7            C
And smashed it on a rock, and wept

                      D
While the old couple looked on into the dark
[Chorus]
Em  G/D     C       Bm
    Oh,     Richard,   tell me if it's poker

Em  G/D     C       Bm   Em                     G
   Oh,      Richard,     tell me, who's got the joker, is it poker
[Bridge]
Am              Em
   Deuces wild,     like an only child

G  C/G                  G              C/G
      I'll see what you got. How much is in the pot

Am                  Em
   You pay the tips    and I'll collect the chips

G  C/G           G               C/G             G              C/G
      It's a full house tonight--everybody in town is a loser

D               D7
Yeah, you bet
[Verse]
Em                         G/D
    The dealer's been dealing me bad hands

C                                 Bm
    From the bottom of the deck, without the slightest blush

Em                                         D/G
 And I don't know whether to call or check

                         C                 D
  But right now I feel like I got a royal flush

        G                      G7      G9
And my lady didn't show from 'Frisco

 C                           D
But we had to go on with the show

                       G                           G7  G9
Everybody got stoned--it was a gas, it was a smash

              C                 D
Everybody got wrecked, checked. Oh, oh, oh, oh

Em   G/D    C          Bm   Em G/D         C           Bm
  Oh ,   Belfast cowboy,         lay your cards on the grade

Em   G/D    C          Bm   Em                          G
  Oh,    Belfast cowboy,         can you call a spade a spade

Em   G/D    C          Bm   Em G/D         C           Bm
  Oh,    Richard,          tell me, is this game poker

Em   G/D          C          Bm   Em                          G
          I can't understand        who the fool is that holds this joker Is it poker?

Em   G/D    C          Bm   Em G/D         C           Bm
   Oh,    Belfast cowboy,         lay your cards down on the table

Em   G/D      C    Bm      Em                          G
   Oh,    Belfast cowboy,         do you think you're able
[repeat]