Poor Boy Chords by Woody Guthrie

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[E] _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ My mother called me to her bedside, [G] these words she said [D] to me,
_ [G] If you don't quit your [D] ramblin' ways, [A] they're gonna get you in the _ [D] penitentiary.
_ Gonna get you in the _ penitentiary, poor boy, [G] gonna get you in the _ [D] penitentiary.
_ [G] If you don't quit your [D] reckless ways, [A] they're gonna get you in the _ [D] penitentiary.
_ So I sat myself down in a gamblin' [G] game, and I could not play my [D] hand.
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Thinkin' about [D] that woman I [A] loved, run away with [D] another man.
Run away with another man, poor [G] boy, run away with [D] another man.
[G] Just thinkin' about [D] that woman I [A] loved, run away with [D] another man. _
Cards come around the table, Lord, [G] and I had such a [D] worried _ mind.
[G] My stack of gold [D] dollars I wasted away, [A] and I lost about ninety [D]-nine.
I lost about ninety-nine, poor boy, [G] I lost about ninety [D] _ -nine.
[G] My stack of gold dollars [D] I wasted away, and [A] I lost about ninety [D]-nine.
_ It wasn't very long till I seen him again, [G] he run away, left her [D] behind.
[G] And I laid him down [D] with my old forty-four, [A] and the judge give me [D] ninety-nine.
_ Well, the judge give me ninety-nine, poor [G] boy, and he give me ninety [D] _ -nine.
[G] I laid a man down with my [D] big forty-four, [A] and the judge give me ninety [D]-nine.
_ _ Well, the jury said that I had to pay, [G] and the clerk he wrote [D] it down.
[G] And the judge called out [D] my _ number, [A] two sixes upside [D] down.
_ Two sixes upside down, poor [G] boy, two sixes upside [D] down.
_ [G] The judge called out my [D] _ number, [A] two sixes [D] upside down. _ _ _
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