Key: B major
Intro 1
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Adim
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D
Dm
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Cm
Verse 1
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G
He used crooked cards and dice
Cm
G
Cm
His heart was hot and cold as ice
and shot my friend Jesse down
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Cm
The boy began to die today
gathered all round his bedside
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Cm
And here's the words that he had to say
F
Eb
G
I guess I oughta know
D
G
Cm
How I wanna go I ain't gonna go, Jesse
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Cm
I want eight crapshooters for my pole man
to the graveyard
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Cm
And only eight men comin' back
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D
I want a gang of gamblers
gathered round my coffin side
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Cm
With a crooked card printed on my hearse
G
D
Now don't try and tell me that anybody's
ever gonna grieve after me
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G
Cm
Sent poker players out to the graveyard
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Cm
To dig my grave where the ace of spades
I want twelve policemen in
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Cm
my fu neral march
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Cm
G
With the high sheriff playing
blackjack leading the parade
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D
I want the judge and solicitor
who jailed me fourteen times
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Cm
To put a pair of dice in my shoes
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G
I got the dying crapshooters
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G
Eb
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Cm
blues.
Now I want sixteen real
good crapshooters,
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Cm
G
With a couple of borrowed tents
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D
He wanted 22 women
out of the Hammond Hotel
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Cm
And 26 women off of Old South Bend
out of North Atlanta
But Lil' Jesse didn't
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Cm
pass out so swell
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Cm
G
Oh, his head was achin',
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Cm
Lil' Jesse went down bouncin'
and a -pumpin'
around just to cry
G
He wanted everyone to do the Charleston Waltz
Cm
G
this dime
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Cm
D
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Eb
Bb
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One foot up, a toenail draggin'
Through my body,
Jesse in the hood still waggin'
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Cm
Run here mama with that can of booze
C
F
Bb
I got the Dying Crab Shooters Blues
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C
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I'm dancin' out with a dying crap
Outro 1
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C
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