Chords for Ninety-Nine And Me

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_ _ All right, _ now I'd like to tell you all a story about me and my brother Billy T. _ _
You see, now when we were just little boys, _ we used to go visit my grandma and grandpa
for two weeks out of every [G] summer.
_ [E] _ _ My grandpa's name was Henry [D] Tolliver Sawyer, _ and he was a guard at the Atmore State Prison Farm.
_ _ Going up there for two weeks out of every summer, we got to know some of them convicts pretty good. _ _ _ _
They didn't give them no name up at [Em] Atmore.
_ No, [E] they just give them a number.
_ _ _ [G] _ [E] So I'm going to tell you all about a couple of friends of mine now.
_ [A] _ _ [E] Tell you about old 50.
_ _ [G] Look [E] out, 50!
Take our brother now!
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50 run into the sun.
[A] He know he can't get away.
_ _ [Em] He know he can't get away.
He know he can't get away.
Henry brought him down with his double barrel [A] shotgun.
Sent him to a better _ place.
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Mr.
Sidney Winsky, Paulie, 14 years since [A] I've seen y'all. _
_ _ _ _ [E] The false man's heavy hand keeps [A] Paulie.
God, I'd rather be dead.
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_ You _ _ _ [Em] know, we got to be just a little bit older.
_ [E] _ They [B] used to let us trade in [E] them old bad [D] dogs.
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Now you boys take off out through that cornfield.
Get up [Bm] across that creek, [B] up into the woods, [Em] and find yourself a tall tree, because I'm
going to turn them dogs loose.
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_ Sometimes we'd be out there in them hills.
[G] _ [E] I'd hear them old dogs coming.
_ [B] _ _ Make me think I was a convict.
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[B] _ Here they come!
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Sound the hound dogs close behind.
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Closing in on [B] me.
_ [E] I can't run no more.
It's done come my time.
[A] One shot and I'll be free.
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Mississippi _ _ Winsky, Paulie, 14 years since I've [A] seen y'all. _
_ _ _ [E] The false man's heavy hand keeps [A] Paulie.
God, I'd rather be dead.
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_ _ _ All _ _ right, then [D] about that time, [E] my life began to pick up just a little bit.
_ [E] Because I met my old friend, Nighty Knight.
_ _ They call him Nighty for short. _ _
_ Now you [Bm] know, Nighty can't read nor write, [E] but they got to give him a job on the line.
[B] So they make him the [G] official [E] postman. _ _ _
[E] _ Now, Nighty, _ he'd take the mail from the front gate.
[G] He'd walk it up [E] to the first house on the line.
[Em] Now that was the warden's house, so be [E] careful, Nighty Knight. _ _
He'd hand the mail to Miss Warden.
She'd take what was hers and give it to Nighty, and he'd go down the line. _ _
_ _ _ _ But I remember it was real hot one Sunday.
_ [Bm] Me and my grandpa were sitting out on the front porch.
_ And we heard word down the line that Atmore was on fire. _ _
And it was a bad fire.
_ _ It was so bad, they had to send some of the prisoners from Atmore up to Kilby to finish their term.
_ _ And sure enough, they wanted to send my [E] friend, Nighty Knight. _ _ _ _
But he don't _ wanna_
Late on a rainy July Sunday, [A] _ Atmore [E] started to burn.
They had to send old Nighty against his will [A] to Kilby to finish his term.
_ [E] We heard there was a break from Kilby, [A] somebody we all [E] know.
_ _ They found old Nighty Knight knocking on the front [A] door, trying to get back into _ Atmore.
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[E] _ Mississippi winds keep calling, [Em] _
fourteen years since I've [A] seen y'all.
Yeah, the _ [E] _ boss man's heavy hand keeps falling.
[A] God, _ _ _ I'd rather be dead. _
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