Key: Db major
Verse 1
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C
Thinking about a lady.
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A lady that had five sons.
This lady was trying to be
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C
the mother and father for her boys.
But you know how it is,
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C
well I thought y were say
you were going to pray with me.
You know how it is, oh yeah.
I don't care how good you raise your children,
if they get around other children
that do a lot of wrong things,
Bb
amen.
can get accused of doing things
that they didn't necessarily have to do.
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F
C
Well, oh Lord, this lady's only son.
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C
I need a praying church here tonight.
Oh, the happened to be in the same
neighborhood
where a man had been killed.
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C
The next day, a police officer
last night a man was killed.
Oh, Lord.
He got ready to leave,
and he said, oh, lady,
Yeah, you know the penalty in this town
For taking someone's life
Verse 3
and she couldn't do much
Verse 4
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C
Cm
all my life, all my life,
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I worked in the field to
I know my boy hasn't killed nobody,
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And I'm gonna try to figure out some way
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Oh Lord. Lord have mercy.
They went to the jailhouse
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a few hours before 12 o
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'c lock.
That was a designated time
that her son was supposed to die.
And in those days,
they had to hang you.
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F
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I wish I had a praying church, yeah.
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all the time
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
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Let me tell you what that old lady did
And put on her coat
reached up on the chef
and put on that old hat
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look at her making her way you see in
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Cm
three times
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Cm
to that bell,
Don't ask me tonight,
I don't know where she got
the strength from.
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