Key: Db major
Verse 1
Earl and I have a real old -timer for you.
I'm just here to get my baby
I'm not in your town to stay,
said a lady old and gray,
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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, oh
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Lord, I'm just here to get my baby
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out of jail.
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Ever since his father died,
I have prayed and I have cried
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That he'd fallen off the footsteps of his dad
I had searched both far and wide,
I had thought that he had died,
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And at last I find my baby here in hell
Oh
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Lord, but it's good to find my
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baby here in hell
I will pawn you my watch, I will pawn you my chain,
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I will pawn you my gold wedding ring
I will scrub all your floors, and I'll wash all your doors,
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if that'll get my baby out of jail
Oh,
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Warden, you know I want my baby
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out of jail
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Then this
Warden he did say to this lady old and gray
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I will bring your darlin' baby to your side.
With those gates clung wide apart,
she held him closer to her heart.
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But smiling in the arms of her dear boy,
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there she died.
Now here's
Percy
Hurrell with some more good
news for you farmers.
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