Transfusion Blues

	  		
Intro  A  

Verse 1:
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Early one morning while making the rounds  
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Took a transfusion and I shot my woman down  
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   Went right home and I went to bed  
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I stuck that loving .44 beneath my head  
 
Verse 2:
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   Got up next morning and I grabbed that gun  
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Took a transfusion and away I run  
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   Made a good run, but I run too slow  
     A N.C.  
They overtook me down in Juarez, Mexico  

Verse 3:
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   Late in the hot joint, taking the pill  
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In walked the sheriff from Jericho Hill  
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He said, "Willy Lee, your name is not Jack Brown  
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You're the dirty hack that shot your woman down"  

Verse 4:
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   Said, "Yes, oh yes, my name is Willy Lee  
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If you've got a warrant, just read it to me  
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   Shot her down because she made me slow  
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I thought I was her daddy but she had five more"
  

Verse 5:
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When I was arrested, I was dressed in black  
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Put me on a train and they took me back  
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   Had no friends for to go my bail  
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They slapped my dried-up carcass in that county jail  

Verse 6:
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   Into the courtroom, my trial began  
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Where I was handled by twelve honest men  
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   Just before the jury started out  
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I saw that little judge commence to look about 
 
 
Verse 7:
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In about five minutes, in walked a man  
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Holding the verdict in his right hand  
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Verdict read "in the first degree"  
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I hollered, "Lordy, Lordy, have mercy on me!" 
 

Verse 8:
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   The judge he smiled as he picked up his pen  
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Ninety-nine years in the San Quentin pen  
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   Ninety-nine years underneath that ground  
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I can't forget the day I shot my woman down 
 


Outro  
A                             D7  
   Come all, you gotta listen unto me  
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Lay off that liquor and let that transfusion be