I'm Just Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail chords by Richard Hawley

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 (D major) I'm not in your town to stay
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Said  (A major) the lady  (D major) old and gray
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To the warden  (A major) of the penitentiary  (D major) 
I'm not in your time to stay,
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and  (A major) I'll soon be on  (D major) my way
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I'm just  (A major) here to get my baby out of jail
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 (D major) Oh,  (G major) warden,
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I'm just  (A major) here to get my baby out of jail  (D major) 
I tried to raise my baby right I have
prayed both day and night
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That he would (A major) n't follow
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the footsteps of his dad  (D major) 
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I have searched  (A major) both  (F major) far  (A major) and  wide
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 (D major) And I feared that he had died
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But  (A major) at last I found my baby here  (D major) in jail
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Oh,  (A major) warden,  (G major) at  (A major) last I found my baby here
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 (D major) in jail
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It  (A major) was just five years  (D major) today
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When  (A major) his daddy  (D major) passed away,
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he was found  (A major) beneath the snow so cold  (D major) an d white.
Was then I vowed to take his ring and his gold watch and chain,
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When the county  (A major) laid
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his daddy in the  (D major) grave.
Yes,
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 (G major) Warden,  (A major) the
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Count, he laid his daddy in  (D major) the grave
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I will pawn  (A major) you  (D major) his watch,
I will pawn you his chain
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I  (A major) will pawn you my diamond wedding  (D major) ring
will wash all your clothes,
I will wash all your floors
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If  (A major) that will get my baby out of jail
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 (D major) Yes, warden,
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 (G major) if  (A major) that will get my baby out of jail  (D major) 
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Then I heard the warden say to  (A major) the lady,
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 (D major) old and grey
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I'll  (A major) go bring your darling
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baby to  (D major) your side
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Two  (A major) iron gates  (D major) swing wide apart
She held her darling to her heart
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She kissed  (A major) a baby boy and then  (D major) she died
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But  (G major) smiling, she kissed  (A major) a baby boy and then
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she  (D major) died
I'm not in your town to stay,
said a lady old and gray
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I'm just  (A major) here to get my baby out of jail
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 (D major) Yes, warden,
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 (G major) I'm  (A major) just here to get my baby out  (D major) of jail
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Oh, warden,  (G major) I'm  (A major) just here
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to get my baby  (A major) out of  (D major) jail