Tom Paines Bones Chords

"Tom Paine's Bones" (G. Moore)
 As performed by Dick Gaughan
 on "Outlaws & Dreamers" (2001)
 
Tune to DADGAD.
 
[Verse]
 
   D                  A            Bm          G
As I dreamed out one evening by a river of discontent ,
   D                    F#m               A                       G
I Bumped straight in to old Tom Paine as running down the road he went. 
          D                   A               Bm             G
He said, "I can't stop right now child, King George is after me,
      D            F#m                 A                      G
He'd have a rope around my throat and hang me from a liberty tree."
 
[Chorus]
 
         D               A          Bm                   G
I will dance to Tom Paine's bones, dance to Tom Paine's bones, 
 D                  F#m                  A                    G
Dance in the oldest boots I own to the rhythm of Tom Paine's bones.
        D                A          Bm                   G
I will dance to Tom Paine's bones, dance to Tom paine's bones,
  D                  F#m                 A                    D
Dance in the oldest boots I own to the rhythm of Tom Paine's bones. 
 
[Verse]
 
       D                   A          Bm              G
Well,I only talked about freedom And justice for everyone,
     D                   F#m                      A                            G
but since the very first word I spoke, I've been looking down the barrel of a gun.
          D                  A             Bm           G
And they say I preached revolution, Let me say in my defence,
      D            F#m                 A                    G
that all I did wherever I went was to talk a lot of Common Sense!
 
[Chorus]
 
         D               A          Bm                   G
I will dance to Tom Paine's bones, dance to Tom Paine's bones, 
 D                  F#m                  A                    G
Dance in the oldest boots I own to the rhythm of Tom Paine's bones.
         D               A          Bm                   G
I will dance to Tom Paine's bones, dance to Tom paine's bones,
  D                  F#m                  A                   D
Dance in the oldest boots I own to the rhythm of Tom Paine's bones.
 
[Verse]
 
       D                 A              Bm                G
well, old Tom Paine, he ran so fast he left me standing still,
      D                     F#m                 A                         G
And there I was, a piece of paper in my hand, standing at the top of the hill.
                D                 A       Bm                      G
And it said, "This is the Age of Reason, these are the Rights of Man,
 D                     F#m                A                      G
Kick off religion and monarchy", it was written in Tom Paine's plan.
 
[Chorus]
 
        D                A          Bm                   G
I will dance to Tom Paine's bones, dance to Tom Paine's bones, 
  D                  F#m                 A                    G
Dance in the oldest boots I own to the rhythm of Tom Paine's bones.
        D                A          Bm                   G
I will dance to Tom Paine's bones, dance to Tom paine's bones,
  D                  F#m                 A                    D
Dance in the oldest boots I own to the rhythm of Tom Paine's bones.
 
[Bridge]
 
 D               A            Bm                 G
Old Tom Paine, there he lies, nobody laughs and nobody cries,
 D                  Bm            A                 G
Where he's gone or how he fares, nobody knows, and nobody cares...but,
 
[Chorus]
 
        D                A          Bm                   G
I will dance to Tom Paine's bones, dance to Tom Paine's bones, 
  D                  F#m                  A                    G
 Dance in the oldest boots I own to the rhythm of Tom Paine's bones.
         D                A          Bm                   G
 I will dance to Tom Paine's bones, dance to Tom paine's bones,
  D                  F#m                  A                    D
 Dance in the oldest boots I own to the rhythm of Tom Paine's bones.
         D                A          Bm                   G
 I will dance to Tom Paine's bones, dance to Tom Paine's bones, 
  D                  F#m                  A                    G
 Dance in the oldest boots I own to the rhythm of Tom Paine's bones.
         D                A          Bm                   G
 I will dance to Tom Paine's bones, dance to Tom paine's bones,
  D                  F#m                  A                    D
 Dance in the oldest boots I own to the rhythm of Tom Paine's bones.
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