Key: B minor•
Verse 1
Don't go into that barn, yea
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Black cellophane sky at midnite
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A big blue moon with three gold rings
I called Champion to the window
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I pointed up above the trees
Verse 2
name in a scream
Coming from the woods, out there
Verse 3
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Don't go into that barn, yea
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I said: don't go into that barn,
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Em
yea
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D
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Verse 4
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Everett Lee broke loose again,
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It's worse than the time be fore
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Because he's high on potato
and tulip wine
Fermented in the muddy rain, of course
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A
Verse 5
drunken wail, a drunken train
Blew through the birdless trees
You're alone alright
How did I know
How did I know
Em
Don't
Verse 6
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go into that barn, yea
Verse 7
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D
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An old black tree,
scratching up the sky
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With boney, claw like fingers
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Digging up the turnips of a muddy
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cold grey sky
Verse 8
Coiled for grabbing a stranger
happening by
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of a deep dead sky
Verse 9
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Don't go into that barn, yea
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I said: don't go into that barn, yea
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Back
Verse 10
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since
Saginaw Calinda was born,
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It's been cotton and
of a long dead farm
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They found the falling down timbers
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Of a spooky old barn
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Out
Verse 11
there like a slave ship
upside down
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Wrecked beneath the waves of grain
They find old bones and
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When they plow they always dig
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up chains
Verse 12
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Don't go into that barn, yea
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I said: don't go into that barn,
yea
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Verse 13
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Did you bury your fire?
Yes sir!
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Yes sir!
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Did you bring your knife?
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Did they see your face?
No sir!
Did you go cross the river?
Yes sir!
Yes sir!
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Did you stay down wind?
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Yes sir!
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Did you hide your gun?
Yes sir!
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Did you smuggle your rum?
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How did I know
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How did I know
Verse 14
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Don't go into that barn, yea
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D
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yea
Don't forget that I warned you
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I said: don't go into that barn,
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D
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yea
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D
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Don't go into that barn, yea
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yea
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Verse 15
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Louisville to Henderson
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D
Henderson to Smithland
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Smithland to Memph is
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Memphis down to Vicksburg
Vicksburg to Natchez
Going down to Natchez
Take me on a flat boat
Dover Dam to Covington
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Henderson to
Outro 1
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TunerE A D G B E
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