Chords for Willis Alan Ramsey - Ballad of Spider John

_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [E] _
Now, here's Willis Allen Ramsey. _ _
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[Am] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[A] Spider John is [C] my main friend
_ [D]
Remember clean frets and [E] the show would be [A] blind
If I could [C] share your [D] company _
[G] On _ _ _ _ [Am] my way to nowhere
Been [D] running from [G] my past
_ [Am] Running from the [G] things I used to be _
_ I _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Am] know my words sound [C] strange to you
But if you [D] will tell me some of your stories _ [Am] told
You [C] might learn to [G] understand _ _ _
_ _ [Em] Why [Am] I'm old and damned [Em] and desperate
[D] And when in [G] need of time
Well not [Am] long ago I held [C] a raw flesh in [D] my hand _
_ _ _ [Em] Back in the [E] _ _
supermarket door
I was a _ mortgage _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ I loved my hometown _ _
I _ _ thought I had lost my blues
Yes I thought I had paid my dues
_ [F] But I thought I'd [C] find a man
[Em] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] And a little Spider [F] John brought me
_ _ [C] Tall, tall [A] and handsome
_ Yes _ [G] it was Spider John [F] with the Lord in [C] hand _ Taking [A] ransom _
[E] Then _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [Am] one day I met [C] Diamond Lill
[D] And she was sweet as pain
I'd have cried over [Am] summer wind
And helped along my [G] way _ _
_ _ _ [Am] Lill she had no [C] idea
Of [D] my lustrous _ [G] _
occupation
She [Am] thought I was a saint
I'd have [C] sent her gone [G] astray _ _ _
_ Yeah
I knew it was a shame
That _ _
_ _ _ [Am] he loved his [C] lily so much
[D] He could not confess his sins
For he knew if he [Am] _ did
Lady would truly take a [G] leap
_ But you know that the word got around
[C] And Lilly left town
[D] And he never saw [G] her again
_ _ [Am] Tossing and turning
And [G] causing his heart to [D] breathe _ _ _
_ I [Em] was _ Superman _
I [E] _ was a little man _ _ Did you? _ _ _ _
I loved _ my hometown _
I _ _ thought I had lost my blues
_ Yes I thought I had paid my dues
_ _ [C] But I thought I'd find a man
_ [Em] And _ _ a _ [G] little Spider John [F] brought me
_ _ [C] Long tall [Am] and handsome
_ Yes _ it [G] was Spider John
[C] With a loaded hand _ Taking [Am] ransom _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [A] That is all [C] my story
[D] It's been these 30 years
Since I took to [A] the road
To [C] find my precious jewel [G] one
[C] _ _
[G] If _ _ [A] you see [C] my Lily
Won't you [D] give her my [G] regards
Tell old [Am] Spider John
The [C] black bird that he [E] spawned _ _
_ You can tell [A] old Spider John _
[C] The black bird that he [G] spawned
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