Intro: C  F  G  C 

                          F         C 
He brushed against her dastardly 
            F        C 
Son of a catastrophe 
                 F             C           G 
Well he shot the lights right out of her eyes 
             F       C 
He took her by the hand 
          F           C 
Helpless within his command 
              F          C      G 
He ripped her heart out of her chest 
                C 
And put it with his 

          F      C  
He got a crazy heart 
                  F      C 
One beat from the very start 
               F     C        G 
He thought it only moved the blood 
                F          C 
She never even dreamed of love 
                    F      C 
Now it's rushing in like a flood 
     F          C       G 
No doubt that he's the one 
              C 
And it's only begun 

            F  C  G  C 
Shall we go on 
            F  C  G  C 
Shall we go on 

                 F        C 
They got their names tattooed 
             F           C 
The cursive sloppy and crude 
           F       C            G 
His on his arm and hers on her breast 
                     F        C 
In a heart it reads Jolene + Joe 
                   F         C 
Oh now the whole world will know 
    F          C      G      
No matter how near or far 
               C 
They're never apart 

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Their folks say they're crazy, too young and too proud 
          F              C      G          C 
Well this ain't no love story, this ain't allowed 
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They say Jesus deny them, though they've done nothing wrong 
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Well they knew themselves all along, you have to just stay strong 

            F  C  G  C 
Shall we go on  (x4)