Wildwood Boys chords by South Memphis String Band

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Verse 1
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This here was our situation.
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We were just young Wildwood boys.
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It was the birth of a nation,
the kind that the army employed.
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High riding race from Missouri,
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fought for the great Montreal.
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Caught up by the battle and the fearin'
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Back when just livin' was hell
After the battle was over
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After the Union had won
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It was Quentin that made us the losers
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So we kept doin' just what we done
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Riding as comrades together
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We looted the trains and the banks
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Removing their coffee bag money
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And sticking it hard to the yanks
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Death always follows behind you
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when you ride down
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that old outlaw trail.
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And someday a bullet will find you,
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or you'll ride like a ghost someday.
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Turnin' your back to the stranger
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is a wage that no man can af ford
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Don't go turnin' a friend to a stranger
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like Judas turned on our Lord
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And are revered and remembered
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While they lay in their coffin and cry
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Some live in the legends of history
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Most are forever forgot
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The victory goes to the strongest,
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and only the strongest survive.
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Survival is living the longest,
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but nobody gets out alive.
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Interlude 1

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Verse 2
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The questions don't ever get answered
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The rights they're remembered all wrong
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The facts, they get plenty confusing,
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so someday if you're singing this song,
remember it's just for the record.
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You can't change the handwork,
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baby, tell about it for a moment.
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And I died and I tried to go straight