Kate Kelly

Intro:  CmSus2   Cm   CmSus2   Cm


                    Cm
So you just keep on drinking
                Bb
And you try to forget
Cm                                               Bb
How they strung up Joe Byrne from the jailhouse door
Eb             Bb
   Like a marionette


                    Cm
He was dead for two days
                     Bb
and I'll tell you no lies
Cm                                            Bb
With the press still around him, making their money
         Eb                           G
Shooting postcards of him through the flies



           Cm    Eb
Close your eyes, Kate
Dm                    G
and I'll sing you to sleep
           Cm    Eb
Close your eyes, Kate
Dm                   G
Your dreams will be sweet
     Cm           F
Kate Kelly, Kate Kelly
Ab   Bb
I'm going to sing you to sleep


                     Cm
Ned rose up from the mist
                 Bb
A man made of iron
Cm                                  Bb
Fighting his way to the smouldering inn
      Eb                         Bb
Where Joe, and his brother, were dying


                          Cm
They had to shoot out his legs, Kate
                   Bb
But if you could sleep
Cm                                     Bb
You could forget that they cut off his head
        Eb                G
For the warden's own paperweight



           Cm    Eb
Close your eyes, Kate
Dm                    G
and I'll sing you to sleep
           Cm    Eb
Close your eyes, Kate
Dm                   G
Your dreams will be sweet
Ab         Eb
Don't wait around here
         Dm           G
May your soul rest in peace
     Cm           F
Kate Kelly, Kate Kelly
Ab   Bb
I'm going to sing you to sleep



               Cm
And now you do horse tricks
               Bb
In a wild west show
Cm                                  Bb
Sharpshooting Kate, the last of the Kellys
        Eb           Bb
Now the queen of the rodeo


             Cm
Was Joe your lover?
                     Bb
Did he send you some word?
Cm                                           Bb
A friend to your brothers all the way to the end
         Eb                           G
Where as brothers-in-arms they would fall


           Cm    Eb
Close your eyes, Kate
Dm                    G
and I'll sing you to sleep
           Cm    Eb
Close your eyes, Kate
Dm                   G
Your dreams will be sweet
     Cm           F
Kate Kelly, Kate Kelly
Ab   Bb
I'm going to sing you to sleep
     Cm           F
Kate Kelly, Kate Kelly
Ab   Bb
I'm going to sing you to sleep


                    Cm
So you just keep on drinking
                Bb
And you try to forget
Cm                                               Bb
How they strung up Joe Byrne from the jailhouse door
Eb             Bb      Cm...
   Like a marionette