Cincinnati Jail
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Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: DCapotraste: Sem capotraste
As recorded by Bobby Bare
(From the 1969 Album (MARGIE'S AT) THE LINCOLN PARK INN AND
OTHER CONTROVERSIAL COUNTRY SONGS)
[Intro]
Em D G A G
[Chorus]
Em D G A
It's cold as a well in the Cincinnati jail
D G C D
I ain't got nobody I ain't got nobody
[Verse 1]
G C D G D7
Shouldn't have drunk that wine it messed up my country mind
G C Am7 D
But I didn't know that pretty gal wasn't free not free
G C D G D
And someone called the law and I had a southern drawl
C D G
The first one they locked up you're right was me
[Chorus]
Em D G A
Now it's cold as a well in the Cincinnati jail
D G C D
I ain't got nobody I ain't got nobody
[Verse 2]
G C D7 G D
I heard a lot about that great mid western town
G C Am D7
So I thought I'd better go and look around look around
G C D G D
Couldn't find me no job and my kind just don't rob
C D G
But they don't want no southern bums around
[Chorus]
Em D G A
And it's cold as a well in the Cincinnati jail
D G C D
I ain't got nobody I ain't got nobody
[Verse 3]
G C D G C
Lord an Appalachian boy ain't never known much joy
G C Am7 D
But I was better off in my Blueridge Mountain home sweet home
G C D G D
I could see the light of day I could while the time away
C D G
On the mornin' the government gave me to live on
[Out-Chorus]
Em D G A
Oh it's cold as a well in the Cincinnati jail
D G C D G
I ain't got nobody I ain't got nobody
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