Key: D major
Intro 1
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Fm
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Verse 1
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My name is Billy Austin
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I'm Twenty-Nine years years old
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I was born in Oklahoma
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Quarter Cherokee I'm told
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Don't remember Oklahoma
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Been so long since I left home
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Ab
Cm
Seems like I've always been in prison
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Like I've always been alone
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Didn't mean to hurt nobody
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Never thought I'd cross that line
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I held up a filling station
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Like I'd done a hundred times
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The kid done like I told him
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He lay face down on the floor
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Guess I'll never know
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what made me
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Turn and walk back through that door
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Ab
The shot rang out like thunder
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Ab
My ears rang like a bell
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No one came runnin'
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Ab
So I called the cops myself
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Took their time to get there
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And I guess I could'a run
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I knew I should
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be feeling something
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But I never shed tear one
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I didn't even make the papers
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'Cause I only killed one man
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But my trial was over quickly
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Ab
And then the long hard wait began
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Court appointed lawyer
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Couldn't look me in the eye
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He just stood up and closed
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his briefcase
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When they sentenced me to die
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Ab
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Now my waitin's over
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As the final hour drags by
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I ain't about to tell you
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That I don't deserve to die
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But there's twenty-seven
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men men here
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Mostly black,
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brown and poor
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Most of em are guilty
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Who are you to say for sure?
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So when the preacher
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Fm
comes to get me
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And they shave
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off all my hair
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Could you take that long walk with me
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Bb
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Knowing hell is waitin' there
Could you pull that switch
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yourself sir
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With a sure and steady
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hand
Could you still tell youself
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Ab
That you're better
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than I am
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My name is Billy Austin
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I'm twenty-nine years years old
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Cm
I was born in Oklahoma
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Quarter Cherokee I'm told
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