Black Jack Fletcher and Mississippi Sam chords by Montgomery Gentry
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Every Friday evening about sundown
Ole' Black Jack Fletcher
and Mississippi Sam
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Come ridin' their mules and
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leading their hounds
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Down to my place
They holler "Hey son"
have you got a drink
Gonna make it hard on you if you ain't
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Verse 2
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I'd grin and point to a jug
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coolin' in the spring
They turn the hounds loose
and let'em run
Drink a little whiskey and have a lot of fun
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Talk about the days when they
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were younger than nowadays
Verse 3
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Talk about women young and old
It was hard to believe all the stories told
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Wonder how they to be as
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old as they are now
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Well Black Jack Fletcher
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and Mississippi Sam
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Fought together in Vietnam
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Mean as hell but they say,
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"Yes ma'am" to your momma
Verse 4
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They gambled away all the
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money they made
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Knowing they was never gonna
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change their ways
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Living out every single day like an
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other wasn't comin'
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Verse 5
Well Ole' Black Jack Fletcher
was an ornery man
Mississippi Sam didn't give a damn
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They'd steal a lady from a man
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while he was lookin'
Well there ain't no doubt
they was both outlaws
Turnin' yellow corn into alcohol
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But they never hurt no one who
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didn't need a hurtin'
Verse 6
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Black Jack Fletcher
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and Mississippi Sam
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Always getting in and out of a jam
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Makin' up their own law of the land,
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while a runnin'
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They knew life was just a luck of the draw
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So they played a game
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with the local law
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Laughin' and sayin' a catchin'
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comes before a hangin'
Interlude 1
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Verse 7
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Now I wouldn't take nothin'
for those days
Every now and then I visit their graves
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And as the moon hangs in the haze
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I have me a drink to Fletcher and Sam
Outro 1
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Black Jack Fletcher and Mississippi Sam
Montgomery Gentry
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