Standard (EADGBE)

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| s4: x02230

| : xx0232

| : 022100

| : 688766

| : x68886

F: x|8|10|10|10|8

|: x133xx

|: x466xx

| p: Pull ogf

| x: Muted note

This song is made difficult by the half-step key change after the fourth verse. The switch from open

chords to bar chords is not very appealing, so it may sound better to keep the song in A major throughout.

Intro

Verse 1

I'm in a women's prison

With bars all around

I caught my darlin' cheatin'

That's when I shot him down

I caught him in a honky-tonk

With a girl I used to know

The door to my cell is open wide

And a voice cries out, "Oh, no!"

Verse 2

The judge says I'm guilty

My sentence is to die

I know I've been forgiven

But the price of love is high

Chorus

There's a crowd outside screamin',

"Let that murderer die"

But above all their voices

I can hear my mama cry

Verse 3

I'm sittin' here on death row

And, Lord, I've lost my mind

For love I've killed my darlin'

And for love I'll lose my life

Verse 4

I can hear the warden coming

From the clinging of his keys

But when they come to get me

They'll have to drag me off my knees

The door to my cell swings open

It's time for me to go

The priest is readin' my last rights

He says, "Dyin's part of livin', you know"

Chorus

There's a crowd outside screamin',

"Let that murderer fry"

But above all their voices

You can hear my mama cry

Verse 5

Now they've strapped me in the chair

And covered up my eyes

And the last voice I hear on Earth

Is my mama's cry

"Amazing Grace how sweet the sound

That saved a wretch like me

I once was lost, but now am found

Was blind, but now I see"

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