Bon Jovi – Justice In The Barrel
115 bpm 4/4 8th Note Strumming [Blaze of Glory 1990]
Intro (16th Note Strumming)
C#m C#m F#m F#m C#m C#m F#m F#m
* E * B * F#m * C#m * E * B * A (A)
Verse 1
C#m F#m
Hey mister can you help me…
C#m F#m
I'm a loner on the run…
C#m F#m
I'm just looking for tomorrow…
C#m F#m
and I ain't gonna hurt no one…
C#m F#m
I jumped headfirst into a bottle… I was…
C#m F#m
looking for a friend…
C#m F#m
Came up just short of nothing…
C#m F#m
I didn't find the truth I only found an end…
Chorus 1
E E B B
So tell me who's gonna save me… or my father or my son…
A A G#m ^ G#m
When the only justice… a man can see… is the barrel…
Interlude
C#m B C#m F#m C#m B C#m F#m
of a loaded gu-uuu-uuu-n… Oh yeah…
Verse 2
C#m F#m
I been broke… and I've been hungry…
C#m F#m
I think they're both my middle name…
C#m F#m
but I don't never ever never seem to… get enough…
C#m F#m
Still I… guess I can't complain…
C#m F#m
'cause you get in life you take it… You've gotta…
C#m F#m
hold on and make it last…
C#m F#m
They say good things come to those who wait…
C#m F#m
but it's life… that goes so fast…
Chorus 2
E E
and when there's just one rule you li-iii-ve by…
B B
Each day you kiss the rising su-uuu-n…
A A
When you live and die by the life we breathe…
G#m G#m
in the barrel…
Refrain 1
E E B B
of a loaded gun… they talk to me in my sleep at night…
A A G#m G#m
and a gu-uuu-uuu-n… somewhere is burning with my na-aaa-aaa---
Solo
C#m B C#m F#m C#m B C#m F#m
---aaa-me…
C#m B C#m F#m C#m B C#m F#m
Refrain 2
E E B B
Winners are losers and losers will have to face…
A A
all those yesterdays…
G#m G#m
and all of the dreams… they blew away…
Bridge
*^ C#m (C#m) * B (B)
So Mister… can you help me… or are you my gun…
* A (A)
Have the ghosts of justice brought you here to me to taste…
* F#m. * G#m. * A. * B. C#m B C#m F#m
the… barrel of a loaded gu-uuu-uuu-uuu-uuu-n…
Outro (Fade Ending)
C#m B C#m F#m
There's justice in the barrel…
C#m B C#m F#m
of a loaded gun… Justice in the barrel…
C#m B C#m F#m
of a loaded gun… Justice in the barrel…
C#m B C#m F#m
of a loaded gun… Justice in the barrel…
* C#m
of a loaded gun…