Key: A minor
Verse 1
G#
C#m
Goin' on a lonesome trail
F#m
B
Gonna journey up the Hudson
C#m
G#
C#m
Goin' on a lonesome trail
C#m
B
E
C#m
G#
Or keep me in the Sing Sing Jail
Verse 2
and asked the warden
G#
C#m
Why they called the jail the Sing Sing
C#m
B
E
C#m
G#
And listen to them hammers ring"
Verse 3
court house
E
C#m
Papers sellin' for fifty cents
F#m
B
He turns in the court house
B
E
C#m
self defense
Verse 4
Tell me why you killed your man"
F#m
B
The judge said, "Listen, Bessie
C#m
B
E
C#m
And you can't understand"
G#
C#m
You can send me up the river Or
Verse 5
C#m
C#m
G#
C#m
old jail
C#m
G#
C#m
Or send me to that mean old jail
B
C#m
I killed my man and I don't
B
E
C#m
B
need no bail
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsC#m G# F#m B E
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