Tune down one 1/2 step...
Intro:
hold bend hold
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eb||----5---5---5---5----5-----------------------------|
bb||----5---5---5---5----5--4b5-5r4p2----4b5 5r4p2-----|
Gb||----6---6---6---6----6-----------4------------4----| etc.
Db||----7---7---7---7----7-----------------------------|
Ab||----7-------7---7----7-----------------------------|
Eb||--5-------5---5-----5------------------------------|
(Chord names reflect standard tuning)
Fast strumming...
It was late last night I made my rounds;
I met my woman and I blowed her down.
I went on home and I went to bed.
I laid my pistol up under my head.
Early next morning, by the rising sun,
I woke up and a started to run.
I made a run but I run too slow;
A man overtook me down in Jericho.
I was standing on the corner reading my daddy's will
'Long came a man they call him Bad Texas Bill.
He said, "Uhh, Captain, is your name Lee Brown?
I believe that you the rascal blowed yer woman down."
I said, "Yes sir, Captain, my name is Lee.
And if you got any blues, boy sing 'em to me."
"Well I guess Lee, that you know the best
You better come with me the judge will tell you the rest."
(play intro licks on break)
When I was arrested, I was dressed in black.
Put me on a train and they brung me back.
Jury found me guilty in the first degree
And they laid me down in the penitentiary.
(intro licks again)
Yes the judge found me guilty an' the jury too.
I cried "Lord in Heaven, have some mercy on me!"
I'll be here fer the rest of my life,
All I done was kill my wife.