Key: A major
Intro 1
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E
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Verse 1
we were tearing it up
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E
B
We hit every high spot in that town
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E
We were at one spot down
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E
there on the bottom
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C#
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B
when the law came through the door
Well, they took us
and they booked us
at the county jail
and Bourbon street strippers
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D#m
B
They took us for the judge's pride
And early next morning
E
B
was a swinger right to the end
E
B
He said, I'll tell you, son, just like it is
E
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B
And you can tell that to your skinny friend
B
E
messin' with Big John Law
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E
B
Son, it just ain't the thing to do
If you don't mess with Big John Law
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F#
Then he ain't gonna mess with you
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E
B
Don't you go and give me
no innocent play
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B
E
Cause I know it didn't happen that way
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E
If you and your friend
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E
had been innocent then
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F#
He'd be out on the street
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E
B
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B
today
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B
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B
Well, he read us up one side
and then down the other
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Cody Laws, he turned blue
He said some big long words
that I'd never heard
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F#
But some four -letter words I knew
D#m
B
And I'll you a hundred dollars
and get out of Louisiana
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B
And I never want to see you again
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F#
And you can tell it to your
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E
skinny friend
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E
B
Baby, don't you be messin' with Big John Law,
E
B
son, it just ain't the thing to do
E
B
If you don't mess with Big John Law,
F#
E
D#m
E
B
An d don't you go
givin' me no innocent plea,
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B
cause I know it didn't happen that way
E
B
If you and your friend had been innocent,
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then you'd be out on the
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E
street today
with big John Law,
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B
son, it just ain't the thing to do
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B
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B
If you don't mess with big John Law,
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F#
then he ain't gonna mess with you
E
B
Don't you go and give
E
B
me no innocent plea,
If you and your friend had been
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E
B
innocent then,
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F#
B
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B
you'd be out on the street today
You
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