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