Chords for Blackjack County Jail - Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson

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[E] _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ I was sitting [C] beside the [G] road in [Am] Blackjack County, _ _ _ _ [F] not knowing [G] that the sheriff [E] paid a bounty for _ [Am] men like [G] me who didn't have [F] a penny [E] to their name. _ _
[Am] _ So they locked my [G] leg to thirty-five pounds [F] of [E] Blackjack [Am] County chain. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ All we [G] had to eat was bread [Am] and water. _
Each day we [G] had to build that [Em] road a [E] mile and a quarter.
Black [Am] Snake whipped [G] and cut our [F] backs off some poor [E] fool for playing.
_ _ He couldn't [Am] fight back [G] wearing thirty-five [F] pounds of [E] Blackjack [Am] County chain.
_ _ But then one [G] night while the sheriff [Am] was escaping, _ [Em] [Am] we all [G] gathered round him [E] slowly grieving.
_ _ [Am] Heaven help [G] me to forget [F] that night in the [E] cold, cold rain.
_ [Am] We ate him to death [G] with thirty-five [F] pounds of [Am] Blackjack County chain. _ _
Now that Whitmarks have [G] all healed, and I [Am] know that _ _
[Dm] [Am] there's nothing [G] but a scar around [E] my ankle, _ _
_ [Am] most of all [G] I'm glad no [F] man will be a slave [E]
again.
_ [Am] To a Black Snake whipped [G] and thirty-five [F] pounds of [E] Blackjack County [Am] chain.
_ _ To a Black Snake whipped [G] and thirty-five [F] pounds of [E] Blackjack County [Am] chain. _ _ _ _
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