Key: D major•
Verse 1
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We moved here from somewhere
when I was fourteen
Worked this poor ground
for bacon and beans
Landlord told me, hard times is near
Didn't mean a thing 'cause
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they're already here
Verse 2
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sharecropper's son
Mama's got the fever and
the baby's sick too
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Papa's uptown soakin' up that brew
Just out of prison,
says he ain't going back
Ain't a bloodhound in Georgia
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Verse 3
Daylight till dark my
work's never done
Lord have mercy on this
sharecropper's son
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Mama's got the fever and the baby's sick
too
Papa's uptown soakin'
up that brew
Just out of prison, says
he ain't going back
Ain't a bloodhound in Georgia
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We
Verse 4
bought a new mule,
brought him up from down south
He'll kick the chew of tobacco
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right out of your mouth
Water in the well nearly out of sight
Verse 5
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Our
crops are all wilted,
no rain day or night
Preacher's here for dinner,
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we ain't got a bite
Eleven in the family,
ten Daughters and a son
Mama just told us there'd be
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another one.
Outro 1
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG D
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