Key: E major•
Verse 1
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E
It's a long old time in a hard rock jail
It's a long old time gone by
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C
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It's a long old time I've laid in jail
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Em
And I've still got ninety- nine
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B
Verse 2
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You see I set myself in a gambling game
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And I couldn't have played my hand
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I was thinking 'bout
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that woman I loved
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Run away with another man
Verse 3
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Run away with another man
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Run away with another man
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I was thinking about that
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Run away with another man
Verse 4
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s come round the table
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Lord, I had such a worried mind
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C
My stack of gold I've
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And I lost 'bout ninety- nine
Verse 5
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I lost 'bout ninety- nine
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G
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My stack of gold I've wasted away
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And I lost 'bout ninety- nine
Verse 6
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into the hockk shop boys
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I got me a big .44
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I was thinking 'bout
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that woman I loved
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That I'd never see no more
Verse 7
I'd never see no more
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Em
That I'd never see no more
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I was thinking 'bout that
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That I'd never see no more
Interlude 1
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Em
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Em
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Am
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Verse 8
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It wasn't long 'til I'd seen 'em again
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I'd laid 'em low with my
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And the judge gave me ninety- nine
Verse 9
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gave me ninety- nine
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The judge gave me ninety- nine
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I'd laid 'em low with my old .44
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And the judge gave me ninety- nine
Verse 10
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said he'll have to pay
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The clerk he look around at me
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No, judge he spoke my number,
Lord
Verse 11
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sixes up side down
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Two sixes upside down
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The mean old judge,
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he called my number, Lord
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Two sixes up side down
Verse 12
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Em
It's a long old time I've laid in jail
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Em
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And I've still got ninety- nine
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Am
It's a long old time in a
hard rock jail
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It's a long old time I've laid in jail
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B
And I've still got ninety-
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nine
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Verse 13
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Two sixes up side
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down
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Two sixes upside down
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