Dock Boggs Country Blues Chords by Kelly Joe Phelps

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_ _ _ Come on you good time people, oh, oh, _ _ oh.
Yeah, well I've got no money to spend.
_ _ _ _ _ And tomorrow _ might be my money. _ _
And I [G] never have a [D] dollar or a cent. _ _
_ _ _ _ Yeah, when I had plenty of money, good _ people, _ _
_ _ _ _ and my friends they would gather around.
_ Just soon as my pocketbook was empty,
_ _ not [G] a friend [D] on earth could be found.
_ _ More than the last time I [D] saw my little woman, good people. _
_ _ _ _ _ It [B] went west in her [E] hand.
_ [D] _ She drank in a well and drove her boat
[A] _ with a [G] low down sorry [A] man.
[D] Yeah,
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_ my papa taught me a plenty good [Dm] people.
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Yeah, my mama taught me more.
_ Yeah, I don't quit my low down rowdy [A] ways. _ _
[D] Yeah, I'm going to have more trouble than my daughter.
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_ _ Yeah, I wrote my woman [G] a [D] letter, good people.
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_ [Dm] Yeah, I told her I [Bm] [D] was in jail.
She wrote me back an [A] answer.
_ _ [G] Said, honey, I'm also [D] coming to your bed. _ _ _ _ _
I rode all around this old jail house and hated good people. _ _ _ _ _
Forty dollars won't pay my fine.
Hear that corner liquor surrounding my _ body.
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_ [G] Lord and the pretty woman [F] waking my mind.
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_ Yeah, if I would have listened to my mama, good people. _ _ _ _ _
_ Yeah, I would end up in jail today.
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_ Yeah, drinking and shooting and [A] gambling.
_ _ [G] Yeah, at home I could not [Dm] stay.
_ _ [D] _ I'll dig a hole, dig a hole in the middle.
Come on, dig a hole in the middle.
_ Yeah, when I'm dead and buried in my pale face
I'm just praying for the sun you [A] can come and see the way [Dm] you're done.
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Yeah, I give a man _ [Dm] cornbread when [D] I'm with good _ people. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Oh, whiskey when I'm dry. _ _
_ _ _ Pretty women _ [Dm] surrounding my body.
[A] _ _ _ [G] Well, then bring me heaven when I'm dying.
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