Bad Lee Brown chords by Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston

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Intro 1

Verse 1
was late last night,
I made my round, I met my woman and I blowed her down.
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I went on home and I went to bed. I
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laid my pistol up under my head.
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Early next morning by the rising sun,
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I woke up and I started to run.
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I made a run, but I run too slow.
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A man overtook me down in
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Jericho.
I was standing on the corner
reading my daddy's will
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Long come a man, called him
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Bill
He said,
Captain, is your name
Lee
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Brown?
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I believe it's you the rascal
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blowed your woman down
I said, yes, sir,
Captain, my name is
Lee
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And if you've got any blues,
boy, sing them
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to me.
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Well, I guess,
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Lee, that you know the best,
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you'd better come go with me, the judge
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will tell you the rest.
When I was arrested,
I was dressed in black.
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Put me on a train
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and they brung me back.
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The jury found me guilty in the first
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degree and they laid me
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down in the penitentiary.
Yes, the judge found me guilty,
and the jury, too.
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Cried,
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Lord in heaven, have some mercy on me.
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I'll be here for the rest of my life.
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All I've done was kill my wife.