Key: E major
Verse 1
E
Gather 'round people
Gather 'round people let me tell
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And his woman back in 1903
Betty was her name said she
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wanted a diamond ring
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Dupree
Verse 2
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told Betty you can
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tomorrow brings
see what tomorrow brings
your diamond ring.
Verse 3
town a '44 in his hand
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Dupree went down- town a
'44 in his hand
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that jewelry man
Dupree said Betty here's your
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Dupree said Betty here's
your diamond ring
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Just to please you pretty Betty I've done,
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Verse 4
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Dupree told Betty I'm
bound for Tennessee
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for Tennessee
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I'm sorry pretty Betty but
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put him into the jail
Verse 5
Caught poor Dupree put him in the jail.
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Atlanta prison is where Betty
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Dupree said judge I ain't
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Dupree
I ain't been here before
Judge told Dupree I'm gonna see that you
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don't come back no more.
Verse 6
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They took him to the scaffold
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Now the cold cold ground is for
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Betty went to the graveyard
singing near oh my God to thee
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oh my God to thee.
Verse 7
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done done to Dupree
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drive his wagon slow
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dead wagon slow
When you bury my Dupree I ain't
Verse 8
gonna see him no more.
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Sail on Dupree sail on,
sail on Dupree sail on
Don't mind you sailing but you
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So long Dupree poor boy so long,
Dupree poor boy
Don't mind you sailing
you'll be gone so long, sail on.
Dupree poor boy...
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsE B A F# D#dim
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