I'm Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail chords by
Stonewall Jackson
Stonewall Jackson

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Key: Db major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I'm not in your town to stay
Said a lady old and gray
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To the warden of a penitentiary
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I'm not in your town to stay,
and I'll soon be on my way
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C
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I'm just here to get my baby out of jail
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Yes, warden, you know
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C
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I want my baby out of jail
I've tried to raise my baby right
I prayed both day and night
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That he'd never follow footsteps of his dad
I have searched both far and wide
I had fear that he had died
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So it's good to find my
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baby here in jail
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Yes, warden,
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C
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I'm here to get my baby out of jail
It's been ten long years today
since my husband passed away
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He was found beneath the snow
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so cold and white
I made a vow to keep his chain,
his gold watch and diamond ring
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Oh, the county laid my
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husband in the ground
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Yes, warden, the county
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laid my husband in the ground
I will pawn to you his watch,
I will pawn to you his chain
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I will pawn to you my
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husband's diamond ring
I will wash all your clothes
or I'll scrub all your floors
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If that would get my baby out of jail
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Yes, warden, you know
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C
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I want my baby out of jail
Then we heard the warden say
to this lady old and gray
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I will bring your darlin' boy to your side
Two iron gates swung wide apart
She held her darlin' to her heart
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C
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She kissed her baby boy and then she died
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But smilin' in the arms of her baby boy
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She died.

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