Last Clean Shirt chords by Rufus Thomas
Verse 1
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Bill Jones loved the ladies.
He loved them better
than he loved his life.
Why, favorite flavor was always flirtin'
around
with somebody else's wife.
Boys say you better be careful,
Bill.
You're gonna get it wrong some
day.
But stallin' sweet was sure the best.
That's all Bill would say.
Bill flirted with a lady one day,
he had never seen before
Her husband watched him all the time,
y 'all know how them things will go
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They put the last clean shade
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on brother Bill one day
They had that poor boy's
funeral this morning,
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and they have laid him away
Bill left this world so sudden
with all his stripes
Just because he was messin' around
with somebody else's wife
Bill is goin' where the streets is
paved in gold
Or either where they don't have
to worry
about no more winter cold
They put the last green shirt
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on Brother Bill today
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You know, I was walking down
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the street the other day,
my brother Jim and I,
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we heard a suspicious noise in the house
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as we was passing by.
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Some man had rushed and struck his wife,
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and as loud as she yelled, murder!
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Me and myself passed right on by,
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just like I had never heard.
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But just as soon as Brother Jim got
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by that man's house
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and heard that woman holler,
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he rushed right in that man's house
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and grabbed that man in the collar,
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he shouldn't have done that.
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They put the last clean shirt
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on Brother Jim today,
they had that poor boy's funeral
this
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and they have laid his body away.
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You see Jim wanted to win
a reputation
of being true blue.
Well I could have done that
same thing
and been out there in the graveyard too.
Well, every brother is gone.
It's so hard to tell.
He's either up in
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Oh, he's a, oh, well,
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they put the last clean shirt
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on Brother Jim today.
Last Clean Shirt
Rufus Thomas
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