Tone: [G]
The church bells they were ringing
The c[G7]clouds were low and brown
The [C]horses they were n[C]neighing
The [D7]day Robert Palins shot me dow[G]down
He rode into town on a jet black mare
Spat and hitched her[G7]her to a tree
He [C]made his way to the town saloon
The d[D7]day Robert Palin’s murdered [G]me
It was a[D7]also the night that
The sk[C]skeletons came to [G]life
They c[G7]came from under the ground
And F[G]From All Over-
Palins grabbed the preachers daughter
And aimed his shooter at my crown
He c[C]cocked that crooked h[G]hammer back
And he b[D7]brought that ham[G]hammer down
Exactly!
The bones are the skeletons' money
In our world bones equal dollars
[C]That’s why they’re coming o[G]out tonight
To g[D7]get their bones from you
The ske[G]skeletons will pull your hair
Up but not out, all they wants
Another chance at life
They’ve ne[C]never seen so much food as th[G]this
Underground there’s half as much food
As this the wo[G]worms are their money
The bones are their dollars-
The bullet it ripped inside my chest
The clouds they did storm
My s[C]sweet Marie she cr[G]cried for me
And t[D]then I was no m[G]more
And it was al[C]also the night that
The ske[G]skeletons came to l[D]life
The bo[G]bones are their money so are the worms
They pull your hair up but not out
To turn into a man to
Have anot[G7]another chance at life
But [Cm]if they pull it [G]out they turn to b[D]bones