Tonart: Db major
Verse 1
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C
Thinking about a lady.
F
Are you going pray with me?
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C
A lady that had five sons.
This lady was trying to be
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C
the mother and father for her boys.
But you know how it is,
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C
well I thought y were say
you were going to pray with me.
You know how it is, oh yeah.
I don't care how good you raise your children,
if they get around other children
that do a lot of wrong things,
Bb
amen.
C
Sometimes your children
can get accused of doing things
that they didn't necessarily have to do.
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F
C
Well, oh Lord, this lady's only son.
Cm
C
I need a praying church here tonight.
Oh, the happened to be in the same
neighborhood
where a man had been killed.
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C
The next day, a police officer
F
came to the old lady's house
C
and said, oh, lady, oh, lady,
last night a man was killed.
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Your child had been accused
C
of taking that man's life.
Oh, Lord.
He got ready to leave,
and he said, oh, lady,
Yeah, you know the penalty in this town
For taking someone's life
Cm
Tomorrow at 12 o 'clock your
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C
son will have to die
Verse 3
C
Well, the old lady was old
and she couldn't do much
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C
Yeah, she told a police officer,
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C
Cm
all my life, all my life,
C
F
I worked in the field to
I know my boy hasn't killed nobody,
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but you take him home.
C
F
And I'm gonna try to figure out some way
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C
Oh Lord. Lord have mercy.
They went to the jailhouse
F
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C
a few hours before 12 o
Cm
C
'c lock.
That was a designated time
that her son was supposed to die.
And in those days,
Cm
way back in the 30s and the 40s,
C
you had to die by a rope,
they had to hang you.
F
It wasn't as modern as they do it nowadays.
Cm
C
F
Cm
I wish I had a praying church, yeah.
C
But don't a mother love a cheer ringer
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F
all the time
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
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C
Let me tell you what that old lady did
F
About two hours before twelve o 'clock
C
She reached in the closet
And put on her coat
reached up on the chef
and put on that old hat
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F
C
look at her making her way you see in
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those days to let the neighborhood know
C
that somebody was sure to die
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they had to tone the bell
C
and they had to tone it
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C
Cm
three times
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I wish I had a praying church here.
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That old lady made her way out
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C
Cm
to that bell,
Cm
they had those big long bells.
Don't ask me tonight,
I don't know where she got
the strength from.
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