Key: Eb major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Judge you want to hear my plea
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Before you open up your court
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But I don't want no sympathy
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'Cause I done cut my
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good man's throat
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I caught him with a trifling Jane
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I warned him 'bout before
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I had my knife and went insane
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And the rest you ought to know
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Judge, judge, please mister judge,
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Send me to the 'lectric
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chair
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Judge, judge, good mister judge,
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Let me go away from here
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I want to take a journey
To the devil down below
I done killed my man
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I want to reap just what I sow
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Oh judge, judge, lordy lordy judge
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Send me to the 'lectric chair
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Judge, judge, hear me judge
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Send me to the 'lectric
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I love him so dear
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I cut him with my barlow (?)
I kicked him in the side
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I stood here laughing o'er him
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While he wallowed around and died
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Oh judge, judge, lordy judge
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Send me to the 'lectric
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chair
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Judge, judge, sweet mister judge
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Send me to the 'lectric chair
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Judge, judge, good kind judge
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Burn me 'cause I don't care
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I don't want no one good mayor
To go my bail
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I don't want to spend no
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Ninety-nine years years in jail
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So judge, judge,
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good kind judge
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Send me to the 'lectric
Outro 1
chair
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