Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Jack and Edie lying across my bed

Flying high like the spirits of the dead

 The living and the dead

 The living and the dead

 Our Lady of Sorrows and the long dark night

How many candles could I light

 For the living and the dead

 The living and the dead

 What's that black smoke rising Jack

 Is the world on fire

 What's that distant singing

 Is it a heavenly choir

 The living and the dead

 The living and the dead

 I think about you Jack, watching the tv

And drinking booze

 Shame on you, shame on me

But how can we help it

 There was no where else to go

I sent Julie and Billy out on that long hard road

 on that long hard road

 on that long hard road

I'm just back from Mexico city

 I came back north to Texas

To rest my weary head

 My true love is fresh from the battle field

Sewing up the dying and carting off the dead

 My baby don't stand for no fighting

 Amongst the living and the dead

What's that black smoke rising Jack

 Is the world on fire

What's that distant singing

 Is it a heavenly choir

 The living and the dead (repeat)

optional: When switching from C to F and F to C on "living and the dead" take the

on the first fret off for a beat before switching