Key: D major
Verse 1
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Big Roy Donahue
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Who were you folks, who were you kin?
Big Roy Donahue
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Before you died you forgot to tell
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Though everybody knew your problem well
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There was no hard -a -worker in the town
But when he'd bust his paycheck at the bar
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It took six boys in blue to put him down
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Put him down, oh, put him down, whoa
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Took six boys in blue to
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put him down
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had a simple way of living
He loved raising chickens
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and you could trust him with your wife
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But the devil friend he had in a bottle
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Slowly cheated Roy out of his life
Oh, the county jail was a
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And it took six boys in blue to put him down
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Put him down, oh put him down, oh
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Took six boys in blue to put
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him down
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it scarcely raided the mansion
Though I guess Matilda Jones,
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But a lonely dog was gettin' no attention
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He missed the love of Big Roy Donahue
Oh, it's strange how a man
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Without any loved ones of his own
There were six people
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And it took six boys in blue to put him down
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Put him down, oh, put him down
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Oh, it took six boys in blue
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to put him down
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Put him down, oh, put him down, whoa
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Took six boys in blue to put him down
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