John Hardy chords by Hamper McBee

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Verse 1
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John Hardy was a desperate little man,
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and he carried two guns every day.
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He shot a man on the East Virginia line.
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John Hardy, he better got away.
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John Hardy, he better got away.
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Well, he went down to that
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eastbound bridge.
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He thought that he would be free.
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Then up stepped a man
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and took him by the hand.
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Said Johnny better walk along with me.
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Said Johnny better walk along with me.
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I have been to the east
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and I have been in the west.
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And I've traveled this
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whole world around.
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I've been to the river
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but now I'm on my hanging ground,
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but now I'm on my hanging ground.
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Oh Johnny walked up to the scaffold high,
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with his pretty little wife by his side,
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and the very last word before
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John Hardy said gonna miss you in
the sweet by and by,
gonna miss you in the sweet
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by and by.
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But while John Hardy was in prison,
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see, he had a,
he played with a bunch of girls, see,
and he had a couple come
in there to see him.
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And John already had a
pretty little girl,
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dressed that she wore was red.
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She come a -skippin' through
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that old jail all sayin',
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Papa, I'd rather be dead.
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Papa, I'd rather be dead.
And he had another little
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girl
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come there to see him, too,
which wasn't his daughter.
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And John Hardy had another little girl,
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the dress that she wore was blue.
She come a -skippin' through
that old jail hall,
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sayin', Papa, I been true to you,
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Papa, I been true to you.
And burl I'll come
out with a little thing
on it said oh the night John Hardy
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Was to be hanged there came
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a storm and hell blowed that
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Hanging scabble on the ground
and they put poor Johnny back in Yale
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and put poor Johnny back in Yale