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