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Billy Bones

Rock Of The Westies

BILLY BONES AND THE WHITE BIRD

Year:  1975
Album:  ROCK OF THE WESTIES
Writers:  Elton John\ Bernie Taupin

Intro: F F 
F Eb\F Ab Bb
F Eb\F Ab Bb

F
Take the wheel I hear the timbers creaking

Eb\Ab                       Bb
Take the wheel I think this ship is sinking

Bb                       Bb   Bb   Bb      G\B
Jamaica seems so far and I've been thinking

    C
Old Billy Bones has gone to sea and quit his dockside 

F
drinking


         Eb\F           Ab            Bb 
Check it out, check it out, check it out


F
And when I'm dead who'll fly the White Bird home

    Eb\Ab                   Bb
I'm not the ancient mariner your children know

Bb                                     Bb   Bb   Bb  G\B
And the sea's the field these old jack tars have sown

C                                            C       C     C    F
`Cause Billy Bones just wants to know who'll fly the White Bird home

         Eb\F          Ab            Bb
Check it out, check it out, check it out, 

           F           Eb\F           Ab            Bb
Check it out, check it out, check it out, check it out,


        F F F\A F\C       F F\C F\A F
Oh your majesty____, your majesty____

Ab\Eb
I heard the bosun cry

Dm
Old Billy Bones has washed ashore

Db             C
Upon a foreign tide


         F             Eb\F          Ab            Bb
Check it out, check it out, check it out, check it out,

         F             Eb\F          Ab            Bb
Check it out, check it out, check it out, check it out,

(Instrumental verse)


         F             Eb\F          Ab            Bb
Check it out, check it out, check it out, check it out,

         F             Eb\F          Ab            Bb
Check it out, check it out, check it out, check it out,

("Oh, your majesty verse")

         F             Eb\F          Ab            Bb
Check it out, check it out, check it out, check it out,

         F             Eb\F          Ab            Bb
Check it out, check it out, check it out, check it out,

         F             F#            G             G#
Check it out, check it out, check it out, check it out,

         A             A#            B             C
Check it out, check it out, check it out, check it out,

         C#            D             D#            E
Check it out, check it out, check it out, check it out,

         F
Check it out!