JACK OF DIAMONDS

Key: G Time: 3/4

AABCCD

A: GGGG GGCG

B: GCGG GCDG GCGG GGCG

C: GGGG GGCG

D: GGGCG GGGCG

I’ve played cards in England,

I’ve gambled in Spain

Going back to Rhode Island

Going to play my last game,

I’ll tune up my fiddle

And rosin my bow,

And make myself welcome

Wherever I go

Jack O’ Diamonds, Jack O’ Diamonds,

I’ve known you from old,

You rob my poor pockets

Of silver and gold

Gonna eat when I’m hungry

Gonna Drink when I’m dry

Get to feeling much better

I’m gonna sprout wings and fly

If the ocean was whiskey and I was a duck,

I’d dive to the bottom, lord I’d never come up,

Now the ocean’s not whiskey, nor I ain’t no duck,

Just play the Drunken Hiccups and trust to my luck