Chords for Avi Vinocur - I Killed Robert Johnson

[G] _ _ I'm about to hit the beam again. _ _ _
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Oh, and my girl on his lap.
[G] So I tapped off a bottle with more than a cap.
[Dm] When you poison men with alcohol,
Oh, the liquor gets the blame.
Yeah, and I killed Robert Johnson [G] _ _ _ just the same. _
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_ _ _ _ [E] _ [G] Oh, so I hired that colored boy
to play his guitar blues
To entertain the white folks, and I'd pay him in [E] booze.
[G] Oh, but it turned sour quickly when he went for my wife.
Oh, even sonny boy Williamson couldn't save his life.
[C] But don't ever knock a bottle out of another man's [G] hand.
He got a slow painful ending on the Mississippi land.
[Dm] _ And I ain't saying he deserved it, oh, for crossing the [A] line.
Yeah, but I [B] killed Robert Johnson [G] with _ strict lines.
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_ _ _ [Gm] _ [G] And I'm low down, low down, low down.
[A] _ [Gm] _ [G] Low down, low down, low down.
[F] _ _ [G] Yeah, I'm low down, low down, low down.
[F] _ _ [G] Low down, low down, low down.
[C] But he [G] dies. _ _
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_ _ _ [Gm] _ So I've [G] kept my mouth shut, _ awaiting my fate.
_ It's trapped in the history of 1938.
And as the men who knew Robert all died of old age,
_ [Gm] my secret [G] grew lonelier like his music on a stage.
[C] Now I may never tell the [Ab] public the reason [C] he's dead.
[G] Yeah, but only the hellhound can pull this truth [A] from my [Bb] head.
[Dm] And I ain't saying I regret it after all these years.
Yeah, but I [A] killed Robert [D] Johnson.
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_ _ _ _ [Gm] _ [C] [G] You think you could help me with this low down part?
I already heard it once, right?
[Dm] _ _ [G] Yeah, I'm low down, low down, low down.
[F] _ _ [G] Yeah, I'm low down, low down, low down.
[F] _ _ [G] Yeah, I'm low down, low down, low down.
[F] _ _ [G] Yeah, I'm low down, low down, low down.
[C] But he's dying, [G] or, yeah, I'm low down, low down, low down.
[F] _ [G] Oh yeah, I'm low down, I'm low down_
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