Tonart: D major
Verse 1
D
I'm not in your town to stay
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D
Said the lady old and gray
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D
To the warden of the penitentiary
I'm not in your time to stay,
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D
and I'll soon be on my way
A
I'm just here to get my baby out of jail
D
G
Oh, warden,
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D
I'm just here to get my baby out of jail
I tried to raise my baby right I have
prayed both day and night
A
That he wouldn't follow
D
the footsteps of his dad
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F
A
I have searched both far and wide
D
And I feared that he had died
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D
But at last I found my baby here in jail
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G
A
Oh, warden, at last I found my baby here
D
in jail
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D
It was just five years today
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D
When his daddy passed away,
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D
he was found beneath the snow so cold an d white.
Was then I vowed to take his ring and his gold watch and chain,
D
his daddy in the grave.
Yes,
G
A
Warden, the
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Count, he laid his daddy in the grave
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D
I will pawn you his watch,
I will pawn you his chain
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D
I will pawn you my diamond wedding ring
will wash all your clothes,
I will wash all your floors
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If that will get my baby out of jail
G
A
D
if that will get my baby out of jail
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Then I heard the warden say to the lady,
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I'll go bring your darling
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D
Two iron gates swing wide apart
She held her darling to her heart
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D
She kissed a baby boy and then she died
G
A
But smiling, she kissed a baby boy and then
I'm not in your town to stay,
said a lady old and gray
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I'm just here to get my baby out of jail
G
A
D
I'm just here to get my baby out of jail
G
A
Oh, warden, I'm just here
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D
to get my baby out of jail
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