Sandy Denny - John the Gun

      
 
 by Sandy Denny
 From 'The North Star Grassman and the Ravens" (1971)
 
 Capo III (Cm)
 (Please note this is not the original arrangement;
 I rearranged it to suit the limited skills
 of a camp fire player like myself)
 
     Am                   C                       Am 
 My shadow follows me wherever I should chance to go
  C        G       Am 
 John the Gun did say
     Am                                 C             Am 
 If you should chance to meet me, as I wander to and fro
  C       G        Am 
 Sad will be your day
 
 My life is mine and the light did shine,
 till the guns shot right through me
 So now I shall never fall
 Ideals of peace are gold which fools
 have found upon the plains of war
 I shall destroy them all
 
 (Chorus)
  Dm            C           
 Put away your guns of steel
        Dm                 C 
 Death comes too soon for all
       F              C           Em 
 Your master he will need you soon
      G                 Am 
 And you will heed his call
 
 I am the master of the game
 That you will hardly ever play
 So I will teach your sons
 And if they should die
 Before the evening of their span of days
 Why, then they will die young
 
 (Chorus)
 
 Condemn me not
 For always have I played the game of war
 In moonshine or in sun
 And if any cross the path I choose to tread
 Their chances they are poor
 For I am John the Gun
 
 (Chorus)