Tonart: G major
Verse 1
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C
G
Howdy boys, my name is
Charlie
Born in
Chickasaw
D
G
County jail
My father
C
G
Albert, he was a sheriff
He shot
D
Horst, he's dear and quail
G
C
G
Am
G
I came west to make my fortune
C
G
A
I ain't gonna work in your factories
D
C
I married me an
D
G
L .A. an gel while I was
D
G
pumping gasoline.
C
G
She was smart and she was pretty.
D
G
She may have been too smart for me.
C
G
She graduated with high
D
honors in her class down at
U .S .A.
G
C
G
Am
G
And she wrote poetry and painted
C
G
A
D
She impressed this loud farm boy
D
G
George, he owned the drugstore
Her name, it was
G
Malloy
George
C
G
Malloy was a pioneer, boys
And he was
G
He smoked a pipe and he
C
G
took me mission
Taught me the words to
G
Jones
C
G
Am
I sold his daughter on dreams of glory
G
C
G
A
D
Cocktail parties and high -tone cars
C
D
G
In the war I worked in movies
Handing
D
G
Oscars to the stars
Interlude 1
Bb
Eb
C
F
D
G
Em
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A
D
A
E
A
D
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E
A
D
Bm
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D
B
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Verse 2
A
D
A
I build homes in baseball diamonds.
E
A
We had two daughters, we had two boys.
D
A
A swimming pool and four racehorses.
And I love
A
Boyle.
D
Bm
D
I also love the gaming tables.
B
Poker craps, it's the same to me.
E
D
E
A
Investing other people's money
E
Indicted on grand larceny
A
D
A
So here I sit, I'm back in jail, boy
E
Because I would not cop a plea
A
D
A
Friends and relatives, they vanished
E
But she never turned on me
Em
D
Bm
A
I had pockets full of silver I
D
B
E
spread around my wealth and joy
E
A
then I had nothing I finally lost
A
D
Hey, but I dealt cards to hop along
A
E
A
Cassidy I played football, I ran track
D
Forty -eight to six in the quarter -mile,
Old
Charlie
E
A
Russell, he don't look back
D
Bm
A
I could run and I could fight,
D
B
boys I knocked out a peepin'
E
Tom
D
E
A
I drank with stars and baseball heroes
E
A
I ended up in a poor folk's home
D
Outtie boys, my name is
A
Charlie, and trading horses, that's my game.
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