Key: Db major•
Verse 1
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"I'm not
in your town to stay,"
Said a lady old & gray
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To the warden of the penitentiary
"I'm not in your town to stay
And I'll soon be on my way
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I'm just here to get my baby out of jail
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Oh warden, I'm just here to
Verse 2
I have prayed both day & night
I have searched both far & wide
& I feared that he had died
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But at last I've found my baby here in jail
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at last I've found my baby here in jail"
Verse 3
When his daddy passed away
'Twas then I vowed
to take his ring
And his gold watch & his chain
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And the county laid his daddy in the grave
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Yes warden, the county laid his daddy in the
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grave"
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Verse 4
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"I will pawn you his watch
I will pawn you his chain
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I will pawn you my diamond wedding ring
I will wash all your clothes
I will scrub all your floors
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If that will get my baby out of jail
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if that will get my baby out of jail"
Verse 5
To the lady old & gray:
Two iron gates swang wide apart
She held her darlin' to her heart
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She kissed her baby boy & then she died
boy & then she died
Verse 6
a lady old & gray
of jail
Yes warden, I'm
just here to get my baby out of jail"
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