Send My Body Home chords by Randy Travis
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Well, the judge he found
me guilty of wrong doing
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And he sentenced me to hang
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in mid July
He looked down at me and said,
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"Your life's a ruined
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"If I were you,
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I'd break right down a cry"
Verse 2
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Well, nobody seems to care
that I ain't guilty
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Lord, I never did the things
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they said I've done
But I guess they're gonna have
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to hang somebody
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And it's looking like I'm gonna be the one
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Verse 3
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So send my body home on a freight train
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And don't worry none that I
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don't go first class
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Send my body home on a fright train
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So everyone can see me
when I pass
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Verse 4
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And don't worry none about
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no fancy funeral
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'Cause it don't matter how
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they lay me down
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Just see they bury me out by
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mama's apple tree
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And send my body back to my
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home town
Interlude 1
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Verse 5
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Well, my mama was a damn
hard working woman
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And she tried to raise us
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kids without a fault
Last thing she said,
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she was on her dying bed was
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"Son, don't get in trouble
with the law"
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Verse 6
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Whenever my time comes
to meet my maker
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I'm gonna try to do my very be st
I'm gonna try to stand
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and take it like a man
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When they ask if I have one request
Verse 7
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Well, I'll just say, "Send my body
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home on a freight train
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And don't worry none that
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I don't go first class
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Send my body home on a fright train
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So everyone can see me
when I pass"
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Verse 8
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"And don't worry none about
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no fancy funeral
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'Cause it don't matter how
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they lay me down
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Just see they bury me out by
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mama's apple tree
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And send my body back
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to my home town"
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Yeah, just see they bury me
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out by mama's apple tree
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And send my body back to my home town
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Send My Body Home
Randy Travis
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