Lustful Earl And The Married Woman Chords by Tony Joe White

_ _ _ There's a song here I'm gonna put on y'all.
_ _ [E] _ _ [F#m] It's about this cat.
He's [D] kind of like a
_ wolfish type person and
It's about him getting caught and everything.
It's called lustful Earl and the married [E] woman _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [B] _
[E] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ Happy girl Bradshaw, he was a lone wolf
He was always
Always on [Em] the prowl and when he go out [D] _ [G] _ _ [E] _ you could [G] hear
[Em] his soulful howl
_ [E] _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [Em] _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [Em] _
[E] _ [A] Baby I'm coming for you
[E] _ [A] Oh, yeah
_ _ [E] _ _ [Em] _
_ [E] _ _ _ Now Lucy Dawson, she was a pretty thing
But you know
_ She was married
_ Whenever she seen [B] a big girl [E] coming
She would hide the [D#] ring she was [E] wearing _ _ _ _ _ [A] and they had some love and [E] some wine
_ _ [A] This went on
Night [Em] _ and
[A] Big girl would howl for [Em] more
_ _ [A] One night there [G] came a pounding on the door
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ [Em] Well a husband
_ He knocked the door down and he grabbed her viciously
_ She said Earl, [G] would you call the [E] police?
Cuz [A] I [G] believe
[Em] He's killing me _ _
[E] _ _ _ [A] But he turned on her with [Em] a gun and [A] there was no chance to [Em] run
_ [E] _ [A] And he said you've had it [E] son
_ _ But he [Gm] miss aimed and shot him [Em] through the knee
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em]
Well, oh
_ [E] Jumped out the window he was naked and limping down the road
_ [Em] _
_ _ And you could hear him [E]
howling in the distance _ [A] but he sounded [G] like a wounded
[Em] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
[A] We Are _ we _ _ _
[Em] Why did you shoot me in my knee _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ [A] I was just trying [Em] to do
_ [A] the thing it [G] comes naturally
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