"Iron John"
        JACKOPIERCE
        From the album "Bringing On the Weather"
        Tabbed by:  Patrick Garrity <mrgarrity@yahoo.com>


        Chords:  D 554030  (basically a C moved up 2 frets)
        Verses:  D, C, Em, Am, C, D
        Chorus:  Em, C
        Bridge:  Em, C x3, D, C, Em, Am, C, D


        guitar lick:
        e-12-----------
        b----10--12----
        d-------------9


        D                            C
        Days in the city tied to the iron trade begin before dawn
        Em
        Silent-faced beneath the hard hats and work-boots
        Am
        Pounding on the cobblestone
               C                           D
        As the long whistle sounds and the shifts begin to change

        And the three rivers form a point of reference
        For genterations of Irish hearts
        Iron hands all by the back fence
        From the heights of Washington, Mary stands sentinel to the city

        Chorus:
        Em        C      Em                          C
        Iron John swirls beer 'round the bottom of a tall glass,
        Em                C     D
        Iron John's got a story

        And the nights on Oneida in the summertime
        They flicker quick light like the fireflies
        I chased down the cobblestone hills into the lights of Olympia
        To watch them fade in my hand though I tried hard to save them

        Chorus

        Bridge:
                 Em
        From the far away posting I'd watch the lights
        C
        Swinging out on the helipads
            Em
        And dream of the lights from the nights I spent
        C
        In my American city
                 Em
        From his hands now he's trying harder and harder
           C
        To build the things that I will remember
                 D                         C
        And they don't fade away--not like fireflies
        Em                            Am
        Those nights on Oneida in the summertime
        C
        Never Iron John
                     D
        I carry them everyday

        And I know the man who blessed me into this world
        And I'd like him to marry me to my girl