Key: G# minor•
Intro 1
G#m
F#
B
F#
G#m
F#
B
C#m
B
F#
B
G#m
F#
B
Lost John's sit tin' on a railroad track
Verse 1
G#m
F#
Blues this mornin' fallin'
B
C#m
down like hail
B
F#
B
Gonna leave a greasy trail
G#m
F#
Gonna travel the world is what I'm
Verse 2
B
gonna do
G#m
F#
B
C#m
All I ever do is struggle and strive
F#
B
I might make it back home alive
Verse 3
F#
B
of a crazy man
G#m
F#
Got a pile of sins to pay for and
B
C#m
I ain't got time to hide
F#
B
if I knew you was on the other side
Verse 4
F#
B
Winter's gone, the river's on the rise
E
B
But there's no one left here to tell
Verse 5
G#m
F#
Well, the world of re search
G#m
F#
Albert's in the graveyard,
B
C#m
Frankie's raising hell
F#
B
what the scriptures tell
G#m
F#
B
I've gone where the Southern crosses The Yellow Dog
Verse 6
G#m
F#
And these bad luck wo
B
C#m
men stick like glue
F#
B
or neither of the two
G#m
F#
She says, "Look out, daddy, don't want you to
Verse 7
B
tear your pants
You could get wrecked in
F#
this dance"
G#m
F#
They say whisky'll kill you,
B
C#m
but I don't think it will
B
F#
B
I'm ridin' with you to the top of the hill
Verse 8
E
F#
And my happiness is o'are
E
B
But there's no one left here to tell
Verse 9
G#m
F#
Don't know why my baby never
G#m
F#
She been cooking all day,
B
C#m
it gonna take me all night
G#m
F#
B
The judge's coming in, everybody rise
Verse 10
G#m
F#
You can do what you please,
B
C#m
you don't need my advice
F#
B
you better think twice
G#m
F#
Gettin' light outside, the tem
Verse 11
B
perature dropped
G#m
F#
I'm gonna make you come to
B
C#m
grips with fate
F#
B
you'll learn to keep your business straight
Verse 12
F#
B
Win ter's gone, the river's on the rise
E
B
But there's no one left here to tell
F#
B
The world has gone black before my eyes
Verse 13
G#m
F#
B
The bright spark of the steady lights
G#m
F#
When you're around me all my
B
C#m
grief gives 'way
F#
B
heavenly day
G#m
F#
Everything I've ever known to be right has been
Verse 14
B
proven wrong
G#m
F#
The woman I'm loving she
B
C#m
rules my heart
B
F#
B
No knife could ever cut our love apart
Verse 15
F#
B
stand in faith and raise
G#m
F#
The sun is strong,
B
C#m
I'm standing in the light
B
F#
B
I wish to God that it were night
Verse 16
F#
B
Winter's gone, the river's on the rise
E
B
But there's no one here left to tell
Outro 1
B
G#m
F#
B
F#
G#m
F#
B
C#m
B
F#
B
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