Sam Stone John Prine
Sam [C]Stone came home,
To his [F]wife and family
After [G]serving in the conflict over[C]seas.
And the [C]time that he served,
Had [F]shattered all his nerves,
And l[G]eft a little shrapnel in his [C]knee.
But the [F]morphine eased the pain,
And the grass grew round his brain,
And [Dm]gave him all the confidence he l[G]acked[G7],
With a [Dm]Purple Heart and a monkey on his [G]back.[G7]
Chorus:
There's a [C]hole in daddy's arm where all the [Dm]money goes,[F]
Jesus Christ died for nothin' [G]I suppose.
Little [C]pitchers have big ears,
Don't [Am]stop to count the years,[D]
Sweet songs never last too long on[G] broken radi[C]os.
Mmm....
Repeat chords for the rest of the song:
Sam Stone's welcome home
Didn't last too long.
He went to work when he'd spent his last dime
And Sammy took to stealing
When he got that empty feeling
For a hundred dollar habit without overtime.
And the gold rolled through his veins
Like a thousand railroad trains,
And eased his mind in the hours that he chose,
While the kids ran around wearin' other peoples' clothes...
Repeat Chorus
Sam Stone was alone
When he popped his last balloon
Climbing walls while sitting in a chair
Well, he played his last request
While the room smelled just like death
With an overdose hovering in the air
But life had lost its fun
And there was nothing to be done
But trade his house that he bought on the G. I. Bill
For a flag draped casket on a local heroes' hill.
Repeat Chorus
End on C
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