Alcatraz Island Blues chords by The Delmore Brothers

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Verse 1
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Takin' me to California,
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rather than Tennessee
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Got in trouble down in Dixie,
and it's Alcatraz for me
Woman in Atlanta, Georgia,
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caused me plenty misery
Thought she was a true companion,
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till she turned her back on me.
Gee, but I'm blue and lonely
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No one seems to understand
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Everybody thinks I'm guilty,
they think I've killed a man
Woman in Atlanta, Georgia,
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listen to this lonesome song
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If the people knew you shot him,
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you'd be where you belong
I was peepin' through the window
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When he came to my back door
She thought I was out of city
When she brought him through my door
He was not the kind she thought him
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He refused to turn me down
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When he told her about our friendship,
she turned and shot him
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down
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Evidence was circumstantial,
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didn't want the world to know
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That the mother of my children
would ever fall so low
I took all the blame for murder,
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murder in the first degree
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For my children I plead guilty,
and it's alcatraz for me