Key: D major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
you good time people
while I've got money to spend
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tomorrow might be monday
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and I never have a dollar nor a friend
Verse 2
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when I had plenty of money,
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good people
all my friends would gather around
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just soon as my pocket book was empty
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not a friend on earth could be found
Verse 3
good people
had a wine glass in her hand
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with a lowdown sorry man
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Interlude 1
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Verse 4
good people
my mama taught me more
if I don't quit my lowdown
Interlude 2
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Verse 5
and I told her I was in jail
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said now honey I'm
Verse 6
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all around this old jail house is haunted,
good people
forty dollars won't pay my fine
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corn liquor surrounds my body
Interlude 3
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Verse 7
good people
I wouldn't have been here
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today
drinking and shooting and
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gambling
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at home I could not stay
Verse 8
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dig a hole, dig a hole in the meadow
dig a hole in the ground
when I'm dead and buried,
my pale face turned toward the sun
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you can come and see the
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way you have done
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Verse 9
corn whisky when I'm dry
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pretty women surrounding my body
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and bring me heaven when I die
Outro 1
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