I'm Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail chords by The Everly Brothers

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Verse 1
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 (D major) I'm not in your town to stay
said a lady old and gray
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To the  (A major) warden of the penitentiary  (D major) 
I'm not in your town to stay and
I'll soon be on my way
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I'm just  (A major) here to get my baby out of jail  (D major) 
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 (A major) Oh,  (G major) warden, I'm just  (A major) here
to get my baby out of jail
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 (D major) 

Verse 2
I tried to raise my baby right,
I have prayed both day and night
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That he'd  (A major) wouldn't follow
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the footsteps of his  (D major) dad
I have searched both far and wide,
and I feared that he had died
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But at last  (A major) I found my baby here in  (D major) jail
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 (A major) Oh,  (G major) warden,
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 (A major) at last I found my baby here in  (D major) jail

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Verse 3
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It was  (D major) just five years today,
when his daddy passed away
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He was  (A major) found beneath the
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snow so cold and  (D major) white
Twas then I vowed to take his ring,
and his gold watch and his chain
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When the  (A major) county laid his
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daddy in the grave  (D major) 
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 (A major) Yes,  (G major) warden,
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the  (A major) county laid his daddy in the grave
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 (D major) 

Verse 4
I will pawn you his watch,
I will pawn you his chain
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I will pawn  (A major) you my diamond wedding  (D major) ring
I will wash all your clothes,
I will scrub all your floors
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D 
If  (A major) that will get my baby out of jail  (D major) 
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Yes,  (G major) warden,
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if  (A major) that will get my baby out of jail
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 (D major) 

Verse 5
Then I heard the warden say
to the lady old and gray
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I'll go  (A major) bring your darling
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baby to your side  (D major) 
Two iron gates swing wide apart,
she held her darling to her heart
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She kissed  (A major) her baby boy and then she  (D major) died
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But smil (G major) ing,
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she  (A major) kissed her baby boy and then she died
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 (D major) 

Verse 6
I'm not in your town to stay
said a lady old and gray
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D 
I'm just  (A major) here to get my baby out of jail  (D major) 
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Yes,  (G major) warden, I'm just  (A major) here
to get my baby out of jail
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 (D major) 