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G
Well, they're buildin the gallows outside my cell and I've got 25
D
minutes to go. And the whole town's waitin just to hear me yell, I've got 24
G
minutes to go. Well, they gave me some beans for my
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D
There were wackoes and weirdoes
A
And dingbats and dodoes
E
And athletes and movie stars
A
And David Allan Coe
D
There was leather and lace
A
An
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[CHORUS]
(Dm)
There ain't no grave
Can hold my body down
Dm G
There ain't no grave
Am Dm
Can hold my body down
[VERSE]
Dm
When I hear that trumpet sound
Dsus
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F C F C F C G C
F C F C
(Dream on dream on teenage queen)
F C G C
(The prettiest girl we've ever seen)
C F C
There's a story in this town
G C
Of the prettiest girl around
F C
Golden hair and eyes of b
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INTRO: GUITAR 1 PLAYS THESE CHORDS FOR THE INTRO
C G C G D G
GUITAR 2 PLAYS THE FOLLOWING:
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G
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G C G
Now I taught the weeping willow how to cry,
G7 A7 D7
and I showed the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky.
G G7 C7
And the tears that I cried for that woman are gonna flood you Big River.
G
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/ E / / B / /
Like a / Bird, / on a / Wire, / /
/ E / / A /
Like a / drunk, in a / Midnight / Choir. /
/ E / / B / / E / / /
I have / trie-, / ed - in my / way, / - to be / free, / / /
/ E / / B /
Lik
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G
My daddy left home when I was three
C
And he didn't leave much to Ma and me
D G
Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.
G
Now, I don't blame him cause he run and hid
C
But the meanest thi
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G C D
My bills are all due and the babies need shoes, but I'm busted. Cotton
G
is down to a quarter a pound, and I'm busted. I got a cow that went dry and
C
a hen that won't lay, a big stack of bills
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C
Early one mornin while makin the rounds, I took a shot of cocaine and
G C(palm mute)
shot my woman down. I went right home and I went to bed, I stuck that
C
lovin .44 beneath my head. Got up the nex
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C F
Morning found me lyin' on a floor in New Orleans
G C
Looking like the patches was about to eat my jeans
F
Feeling like my belly was a warehouse for the blues
G C
And I sure miss my sweet Cocaine C
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G7 C F6 G7 C
She said: "Come in stranger, it's good to have you home.
C7 F C
I hurried thru 'cause I knew it was you,
Dm G7 C
when I saw your dog, waggin' his tail.
F C
Honey, why didn't you let me
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Capo 1st fret
A X02220
B7 X21202
E 022100
F#7 242322
[Intro]
A B7 E
[Verse]
E
Everybody knows where you Go when the sun goes down,
F#7 B7
I think
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Verse 1:
A F#m
She stepped down from her carriage at 10 Vermillon Street
D E
I took off my roustabout and slung it to her feet
A F#m
We went into her parlor and she cooled me with her fan
D E A
But sa
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A D
Delia, oh, Delia
A
Delia all my life
D
If I hadn't have shot poor Delia
B7 E
I'd-a had her for my wife
A D A
Delia's gone, one more round
E A
Delia's gone
I went up to Memphis
And I met Delia th
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E E7 A E
There's a place I know where the train goes slow
A B7
Where the sinner can be washed in the blood of the lamb
E E7 A
There's a river by the trestle down by Sinner's Grove
E B7 A E
Down where
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E
E E7
I got a friend named Whiskey Sam
A
He was my boonierat buddy for a year in Nam
B7
He said is my country just a little off track
E B7 E
Took 'em twenty-five years to welcome me back
E E7
But, i
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INTRO: C
VERSE:
C F C
FIELD OF DIAMONDS IN THE SKY
C G C
WORLDS ARE WHIRLING RIGHT ON BY
C F C
ARE YOU WONDERING WHO AM I
C G C
FIELD OF DIAMONDS IN THE SKY
BREAK:
Bb C
AM I JUST A STAR IN SOME CRO
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Standard Tuning Capo 1
Intro: A Strum Once
No Chord
How high's the water, Mama?
A
Two feet high and risin'.
A
How high's the water, Papa?
A
Two feet high and risin'.
/ A
We can / make it to the road
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[Verse 1]
E
I hear the train a-coming, it's rolling round the bend
E7
and I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when
A
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Intro: 12 bars - first 4 drums only
C / G /
- I will drink the / cup, /
C / F /
- The poison over - / flowing, /
C / G /
- I will lift you / up, /
C / F /
- Watch over where you're / going, /
C / G
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G
I hear the train acoming it's rolling round the bend
G7
and I ain't seen the sunshine sine I don't know when
C G
I'm stuck at Folsom Prison and time keeps draggin' on
D7 G
But that train keeps ro
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[Intro]
Am - C - Am - G - Am
Am C
Where the road is dark and the seed is sowed
Am C
Where the gun is cocked and the bu
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Capo 1
Am C Am
An old cowboy went riding out one dark and windy day,
Am C Am
Up - on a ridge he rested as he went along his way,
Am F Am
When all at once a mighty herd of red-e
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Am
[Chorus 1]
Am
You can run on for a long time,
Am
Run on for a long time,
Am
Run on for a long time,
C Dm Em Am
Sooner, or later, God'll cut you down
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C F C
Inside the walls of prison, my body made me, buy my Lord has set my soul
F
free. There's a greystone chapel here at Folsom, a house of worship in this
C F C
den of sin. You would think that God
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A D A
Well, you ask me if I'll forget my baby
A D
I guess I will some day
A E A (E)
I don't like it but I guess things happen that way
A D A
You ask me if I'll get along
A D
I guess I will some way
A
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G G
Hey, Porter, Hey Porter! Would you tell me the time?
A7 D7
How much longer will it be 'til we cross that Mason Dixon Line?
G G G C
At daylight will you tell that engineer to slow it down;
G D7 G
O
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INTRO:
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