Them's Graveyard Words chords by Bessie Smith

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Intro 1

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Verse 1
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I've got a man
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I had for a year
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But he just won't treat me right
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He knocked me silly with a rock
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Bm 
ing chair
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'Cause

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Verse 2

I stayed out one night

But he done got my coat

'Cause he told me to my face

That he's done bought some

girl a new fur coat

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And she's done taken my place

Won't somebody

Verse 3
Bm 
open
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Em 
up his eyes?
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'Cause that is graveyard words
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And I'll show him be  fore
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he dies
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That them is graveyard words
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I can

Verse 4
Em 
see the undertaker
Bm 
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putting flowers on doors
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And a traveler going where
Bm 
Em 
he never come back no more
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Tell him that I'll fix him sure as
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two and two is four
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'Cause them is graveyard words
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Bm 
Go and tell him that he's

Verse 5
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slowly dying
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Oh them is graveyard
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words
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Please don't let me lose
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my  rightful mind
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'Cause them is graveyard words
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I done pol ished up my pistol

Verse 6
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My razor's sharpened too
He'll think the world done fell on him
When my dirty work is through
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Tell him that I'll do just
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what I said I'd do
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Oh them is graveyard words
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