Jude Cole - Joe guitar tab

"Joe" by Jude Cole

Written by Jude Cole and George M. Green

From the album "I Don't Know Why I Act This Way"

Island Records, 1995

Transcribed by Kevin Ross (kjross@yahoo.com)

Updated May, 2002 by Chris Nastally (nast2112@comcast.net)

INTRO/VERSE chords:

e--------

B-3----3-

G-x----0-

D-4----2-

A-x----x-

E-3----3-

I go to church on Sunday morning

Come home and beat my wife

My name is Joe, and you know me

I've lived here all of my life, my life

Em G

I've got this pain I cannot speak of

Em G

I'm not so bad as people say

Em G

I've got two kids who look like angels

C G

But sometimes, sometimes I wish they'd fly away

Chorus:

D Em

Life is good, you know we're lucky

C G

Livin' in the USA

D Em

We've got everything we ever dreamed of

C G

Darlin' I don't know why, I don't know why I act this way

My next door neighbor's got a problem

Works hard, don't seem fair

His wife's a teacher at the grade school

And we've been having this affair

I've been a son I've been a soldier

I've thrown the football in the rain

The blood of murderers and millionaires is pounding

Pounding through my veins

CHORUS

Bridge:

Em A

Kennedy was in the White House, we were children in the sun

Em C

Smokin' candy cigarettes, cowboys and indians and toy guns

Some nights I go down to the basement

With thoughts I do not understand

A purple heart and a loaded pistol

And I just hold them, hold them in my hands

CHORUS, INTRO CHORDS OUT