Ballad of a Law Abiding Sophisticate

Intro:
   C E Am F
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Verse 1:
     C        E7
Well, marry me
    Am           F
To a rope and a tree
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What that ol' judge called first degree
            C            E7
And all the folks around town
        Am
Swore to lay me
      F
In the ground
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They found out I put that poor boy down

Verse 2:
        C
You see I
            E7
Did not much care
       Am
For the way
                 F
That he'd sit and glare
     C
So I closed
             G
His eyes for good
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With a bar-room chair

Verse 3:
   C                  E7
So, gonna lay my poor bones
   Am                  F
Past Appalachian stones
C                G                    C
Far beneath that cold ground all alone
                       E7
Oh but if you're asking me
Am                     F
Where I would rather be
        C
It was worth it
            G
To see that boy
                  C
Cut from the knees

Outro:
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