Durango Jail Chords by Paul Clayton

[E] _ _ The Durango [B] jail it [E] beats them _ all _
[A] For the bugs in the rugs and the pictures [B] on the wall and [E] it's hard
_ Time _ in Durango jail, it's [A] hard _ [B] _ Times
_ [E] boy, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I
wrote to my mother [D#] to
[E]
Send me a knife [A] cuz the bugs are so big that they [Em] threatened [F#m] my life [E] and it's hard
times in Durango jail it's
hard times boy
I said it's hard times in Durango jail
Well, [A] there's no one around me to [E] go my bail [A] and my girls in Memphis
She [E] don't send no mail.
It's hard
[B] _ [E] times
_ [B] You [E] get your coffee in an old tin cup
[A] You won't put it down, but you can't drink it up.
Oh, [E] it's hard times
_ Durango jail it's [B] hard [E] time
_ I mean it's hard times in Durango [Bm] jail
[A] No one around me [E] to go my bail [A] and my girls in Memphis [E] and she don't send no mail _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] Sheriff [E] _ he's [B] taken [E] my very last cent [A] and all that he told me was
Thanks [B] for the rent.
[E] Well, it's hard times in Durango jail it's
[B] Hard [E] times boy
I said it's hard times in Durango jail
[A] Well, there's no one around me [E] to go my bail [A] and my girls in Memphis
[E] And she don't send no mail.
It's hard [B] [E] times
_ [B] Six [E] _ [B] months time [E] wouldn't seem so long if [A] that girl of mine hadn't
Done me [B] wrong.
Oh, [E] it's hard times in Durango jail.
It's [B] hard [E] time
What I mean, it's hard times in Durango jail
Well, [A] there's no one around me to [E] go my bail and [A] my girls in Memphis
[E] And she don't send no mail hard _ _ boys _ _ _ Our time _ _ _ _ _ _ _