Key: C major
Verse 1
My mother called me to her bedside
If you don't quit your rambling
ways
They're gonna get you
in the penitentiary
Gonna get you in the penitentiary
poor boy
Gonna get you in the penitentiary
in the penitentiary
So I sat myself down in a gambling game
Verse 2
But I could not play my hand
G
Just thinking about that
woman I love
Run away with another man
Run away with another man
Just thinking about that woman I love
Verse 3
F
C
My stack of gold dollars I wasted away
G
C
And I lost about ninety- nine
I lost about ninety- nine poor boy
C
F
C
My stack of gold dollars I wasted away
Verse 4
F
C
seen him again
C
G
And I laid him down with my old forty- four
Em
G
And the judge gave me ninety-
The judge gave me ninety- nine poor boy
I laid a man down with my big
C
F
forty- four
And the judge gave
me ninety- nine
C
Well the jury said I had to pay And the clerk he wrote it down
Verse 5
C
Two sixes upside down
Two sixes upside
down poor boy
Two sixes upside down
The judge called out my number
F
C
Two sixes upside down
F
C
G
C
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsC G F Em
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