Key: B minor
Intro 1
C#m
Verse 1
C#m
They weigh the cotton,
they store the corn
F#m
We're only good enough
G#
to work the roads
C#m
They run the commissary,
they keep the books
F#m
G#
We gotta be grateful for
C#m
being cheated
E
Whip snapper clerks call out our names
F#m
G#
We got to say mister to spindlin' boys
C#m
They make our figures turn to somersets
F#m
We bunk in the middle,
G#
say thank you, sir
A
C#m
They don't come by ones
A
C#m
A
They don't come by tunes
C#m
But they come by tens
They got the judges,
E
they got the lawyers,
F#m
they got the jury rolls,
G#
they got the law
C#m
They got the sheriffs,
E
they got the deputies,
F#m
they got the shotguns,
G#
C#m
they got the rolls
A
C#m
We get the justice in the end,
A
C#m
we get the justice in the end
F#m
A
C#m
An d they come by ten
Interlude 1
C#m
Verse 2
B
Their fists stay closed,
C#m
their eyes look straight
G#
C#m
Our hands stay open, our eyes must fall
B
They got the manhood,
C#m
they got the courage
G#
We've got to slick around
A
like hang -tail hounds
C#m
They burn us when we dance
A
C#m
A
They burn us when we mend
E
C#m
And they come back to us
E
F#m
G#
C#m
B
E
F#m
G#
C#m
I had a buddy, six foot of man
F#m
G#
C#m
Muscled up perfect, game to the heart
He outworked and he outfought
E
F#m
G#
Any man, or any two men
C#m
He spoke out of turn
at the commissary
F#m
They gave him a date
G#
to get out of the county
C#m
He didn't take it, he said,
come and get me
F#m
They came and got him,
G#
he stayed in the county
A
C#m
And he lays there dead
A
C#m
They don't come by ones
A
C#m
They don't come by twos,
A
C#m
but they come by tens,
F#m
C#m
come by tens.
F#
C#m
F#m
C#m
F#m
C#m
F#m
C#m
F#m
C#m
C#m
You
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