Tonart: B major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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was a gambler night and day
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He used crooked cards and dice
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He was a sinful boy of good nature
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His heart was hot and cold as ice
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Well, the police walked up
and shot my friend Jesse down
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The boy began to die today
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There was a bunch of gamblers
gathered all round his bedside
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And here's the words that he had to say
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I guess I oughta know
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How I wanna go I ain't gonna go, Jesse
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I want eight crapshooters for my pole man
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And let them all be dressed in black
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I want nine men goin'
to the graveyard
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And only eight men comin' back
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I want a gang of gamblers
gathered round my coffin side
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With a crooked card printed on my hearse
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Now don't try and tell me that anybody's
ever gonna grieve after me
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My life's been a doggone curse
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Sent poker players out to the graveyard
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To dig my grave where the ace of spades
I want twelve policemen in
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my fu neral march
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With the high sheriff playing
blackjack leading the parade
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I want the judge and solicitor
who jailed me fourteen times
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To put a pair of dice in my shoes
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Let a deck of cards be my tombstone,
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I got the dying crapshooters
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blues.
Now I want sixteen real
good crapshooters,
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And sixteen bootleggers to sing me a song.
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I want six teen buck riders gamblin'
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With a couple of borrowed tents
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while I'm rollin' along.
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He wanted 22 women
out of the Hammond Hotel
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And 26 women off of Old South Bend
out of North Atlanta
But Lil' Jesse didn't
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pass out so swell
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Oh, his head was achin',
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his heart was jumpin'
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Lil' Jesse went down bouncin'
and a -pumpin'
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Now folks don't be standin'
around just to cry
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He wanted everyone to do the Charleston Waltz
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this dime
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One foot up, a toenail draggin'
Through my body,
Jesse in the hood still waggin'
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Run here mama with that can of booze
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I got the Dying Crab Shooters Blues
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I'm dancin' out with a dying crap
Outro 1
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