Sam Stone Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[G][C][D][Dsus4][G]

[Verse 1]
Sam [G]Stone came
home to his [C]wife and family
After [D]serving in the conflict [G]overseas
And in the time that he had served
It had [C]shattered all his nerves
And it [D]left a little shrapnel in his [G]knee

[Verse 2]
But [C]the morphine eased [G]the pain
And [C]the grass grew round his [G]brain
And it [Am]eased his mind in the
hours that it shows
While his [D]kids ran around wearing
[Am]other peoples' clothes
[D]

[Verse 3]
refrain:
There's a [G]hole in daddy's arm
where all [Am]the money [C]goes
Jesus Christ died for nothing, I sup[D]pose
Little [G]pitchers have big ears
But don't [C]you stop to count the years
[Am]Sweet songs never last too
long [D]on broken radios
Mmm
[Eb]

[Verse 4]
Sam [Ab]Stone's welcome home
didn't [Db]last too long
No, [Eb]he went to work after
he spent his last [Ab]dime
And Sammy took to stealing
When [Db]he get' that empty feeling
For a hun[Eb]dred dollar habit
without overtime
[Ab]

[Verse 5]
And [Db]the cold rolled through his [Ab]veins
Like [Db]a thousand railroad [Ab]trains
And it [Bbm]eased his mind in the
hours that [Eb]it shows
While his [Bbm]kids ran around wearing other peoples'

[Interlude 1]
clothes
[Eb][Ab][Fm][Bbm][Db]
[Eb][Ab][Db][Bbm]
[Eb]

[Verse 6]
[Eb]refrain[E]
Sam [A]Stone was alone when
he [D]broke his last balloon
[E]Climbing walls while he sat
there in [A]a chair
Well, he played his last request
While the [D]room stonk just like death
With an [E]overdose just hovering in the [A]air

[Verse 7]
But [D]life had lost all it's [A]fun
And there was [D]nothing to be [A]done
But [Bm]to trade his home that
he bought on the GI [E]bill
For what, [Bm]a flag draped casket on
a local her[E]oes' hill
[F]

[Verse 8]
[Bb]
[Cm]re frain

[Interlude 2]
[Eb][F]
[Bb][Eb][Cm][F]
[Eb][Bb]

[Verse 9]
Sam [Eb]Stone, ah
Sam Stone