Tonart: G major
Intro 1
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Em
Verse 1
On 40 rocky acres of ground
We froze in the winter
Burnt up in summer
A
Em
And starved the whole year 'round
Every year we planted,
but we couldn't raise nothin'
But some rotten cotton we couldn't sell
C
It got to be that Papa called
40 rocky acres of Hell
G
Verse 2
G
Verse 3
Lord knows he worked
C
Em
We just never seemed to get ahead
Supper many nights was nothing
But some warmed over
beans and cornbread
Five hungry people,
and three little rooms
And life getting rougher every day
It seemed the price of one
D
Was a dollar more than Papa could pay
G
Verse 4
G
Verse 5
On my fourteenth year
I'd just gotten home from school
My little sister Betsy,
she was five years old
Came riding to the house on a mule
She cried: "Mama y'all
better come quick
Papa done fell and he's hurt"
We buried Papa that Sunday
Db
The very next Monday
Eb
Ab
Things went from bad to worse
Verse 6
Db
We were doing our time
Ab
Verse 7
F#
Now my big brother Burt
didn't take him very long
F#m
He got tired of plowing Devil ground
D
So he got him a gun and he
F#m
robbed him a store
And the law had to hunt him down
They caught him up in Memphis
And Burt made them shoot
F#
But I've heard a lot
F#m
of people that say
"Your big brother Burt didn't
Em
E
A
He just had to get away"
Verse 8
A
Verse 9
Gm
Now, many years have passed
And Mama, she's gone
She's with Papa and Burt
My little sister Betsy married a salesman
And moved out west to Fort Worth
Here I sit on this 40 acres
Raising rotten cotton I can't sell
So good Lord when I die
Eb
You gotta take me to Heaven
F
I've done my time in Hell
Bb
Verse 10
Eb
I've been doing my time
Bb
Verse 11
Eb
I've been doing my time
Bb
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