Kate Kelly
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Cm
So you just keep on drinking
Bb
and you try to forget
G Cm
How they strung up Joe Byrne
Bb
to the jailhouse door
Eb Bb
Like a marionette
Cm
He was dead for two days
Bb
I'll tell you no lies
G Cm
With the press still around him
Bb
making their money
Eb G
Shooting postcards of him through the flies
Cm Eb
Close your eyes Kate
Ddim G
and I'll sing you to sleep
Cm Eb Ddim G
Close your eyes Kate, your dreams will be sweet
Cm Fm
Kate Kelly, Kate Kelly
Ab Bb Cm
I'm gonna sing you to sleep
Ned rose up through the mist
Bb
man made of iron
G Cm Bb
Fighting his way to the smouldering inn
Eb Bb
Where Joe and his brother were dying
Cm
Had to shoot out his legs Kate
Bb
and if you could sleep
G Cm Bb
You could forget that they cut off his head
Eb G
For the warden's paperweight
Cm Eb
Close your eyes Kate
Ddim G
and I'll sing you to sleep
Cm Eb Ddim G
Close your eyes Kate, your dreams will be sweet
Eb
Don't linger around here
Ddim G
may your soul rest in peace
Cm Fm
Kate Kelly, Kate Kelly
Ab Bb Cm
I'm gonna sing you to sleep
Cm Bb G C Bb Eb G
Cm
Now you do horse tricks
Bb
in a wild west show
G Cm
Sharp-shooting Kate
Bb
the last of the Kellys
Eb Bb
Now the queen of a rodeo
Cm
Was Joe your lover?
Bb
Did he send you some word?
G Cm
A friend to your brothers
Bb
all the way to the end
Eb
Where as brothers-in-arms
G
they would fall
Cm Eb
Close your eyes Kate
Ddim G
and I'll sing you to sleep
Cm Eb Ddim G
Close your eyes Kate, your dreams will be sweet
Cm Fm
Kate Kelly, Kate Kelly
Ab Bb
I'm gonna sing you to sleep
Cm Fm
Kate Kelly, Kate Kelly
Ab Bb Cm
I'm gonna sing you to sleep
Just keep on drinking
Bb
you try to forget
G Cm
How they strung up Joe Byrne
Bb
to the jailhouse door
Eb G
Like a marionette
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