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Cocaine Blues

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Cocaine Blues

Year: 1968 - Album: At Folsom Prison

Written by T J Arnall, William Nichols

	  		C   
EARLY ONE MORNIN' WHILE MAKIN' THE ROUNDS   
                                       G  
I TOOK A SHOT OF COCAINE AND I SHOT MY WOMAN DOWN   
   
I WENT RIGHT HOME AND I WENT TO BED   
       C                                                          
I STUCK THAT LOVIN' 44 BENEATH MY HEAD   
 C  
GOT UP NEXT MORNIN' AND I GRABBED THAT GUN   
                            G    
TOOK A SHOT OF COCAINE AND AWAY I RUN   
   
MADE A GOOD RUN BUT I RUN TOO SLOW   
                                                                            
C   
THEY OVERTOOK ME DOWN IN JUAREZ MEXICO   
   
LAID IN THE HOT JOINT TAKIN' THE PILLS  
                           G   
IN WALKED THE SHERIFF FROM JERICHO HILL   
   
HE SAID WILLY LEE YOUR NAME IS NOT JACK BROWN   
                                                                              
 C   
YOU'RE THE DIRTY HACK THAT SHOT YOUR WOMAN DOWN   
C   
SAID OH YES OH YES MY NAME IS WILLY LEE   
                                G   
IF YOU'VE GOT A WARRANT JUST A READ IT TO ME   
   
I SHOT HER DOWN CAUSE SHE MADE ME SLOW   
                                                                              
     C   
I THOUGHT I WAS HER DADDY BUT SHE HAD FIVE MORE   
   
WHEN I WAS ARRESTED I WAS DRESSED IN BLACK   
                                  G   
THEY PUT ME ON A TRAIN AND THEY TOOK ME BACK   
   
I HAD NO FRIEND FOR TO GO MY BAIL   
                                                                              
     C   
THEY SLAPPED MY DRIED-UP CARCASS IN THE COUNTY JAIL   
   
EARLY NEXT MORNING ABOUT A HALF PAST NINE   
                     G   
I SPIED A SHERIFF COMIN' DOWN THE LINE   
   
HOCKED AND HE COUGHED AS HE CLEARED HIS THROAT   
                                                                                
      C         
HE SAID COME ON YOU DIRTY HACK INTO THAT DISTRICT COURT   
C   
INTO THE COURTROOM MY TRIAL BEGAN    
                        G   
WHERE I WAS HANDLED BY TWELVE HONEST MEN   
   
JUST BEFORE THE JURY STARTED OUT   
                                                                            
   C   
I SAW THAT LITTLE JUDGE COMMENCE TO LOOK ABOUT   
C   
IN ABOUT FIVE MINUTES IN WALKED A MAN   
                       G   
HOLDING THE VERDICT IN HIS RIGHT HAND   
   
   
THE VERDICT READ IN THE FIRST DEGREE   
 C                                                          
I HOLLERED LORDY LORDY HAVE MERCY ON ME   
C   
THE JUDGE HE SMILED AS HE PICKED UP HIS PEN   
                         G   
NINETY NINE YEARS IN THE FOLSOM PEN   
   
NINETY NINE YEARS UNDERNEATH THAT GROUND   
                                                                              
   C   
I CAN'T FORGET THE DAY I SHOT THAT BAD BITCH DOWN   
C                                                                       
COME ON COME ON AND LISTEN UNTO ME   
                                                       G                         
              
LAY OFF THAT WHISKEY AND LET THAT COCAINE BE   


		  

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