Tom Dooley Chords by Bobby Bare

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There have been many a song written about the eternal trying.
This [D] song is about a Mr.
[Am] Grace, [D] a beautiful woman [Am] named Loy [A] and a condemned man by the
[Am] name of Tom Dooley.
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Hang down your heads, Tom Dooley _ Hang down your head [D] and cry
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_ [D] Hang down [Am] your heads, [D] Tom [Am] Dooley _ [D] Oh [A] boy, you're bound [G] to die
I _ _ _ _ _ _ met her on the mountain, _ _ _ there I took her [D] life.
_ _ Met her on the mountain, [Am] _ _ [D] stabbed her with my [G] knife.
_ Took her on the hillside, _ _ God Almighty [D] knows.
_ Took her on the hillside, _ that's where I [G] hid her cloak.
Why don't you hang down your head, Tom _ Dooley?
Hang down your head [D] and cry, [Am] _ _ [D] hang down your head, Tom [Am] Dooley.
_ [D] Poor boy found [G] to die, _ _ _ _ _ a dug grave.
Five feet long, dug it three [D] feet deep.
[Am] _
_ Broke the cold [D] clay [Am] over her, [D] stomped it with [G] my feet. _
_ Maybe it is time tomorrow, _ _ reckon where [D] I'll be.
If _ it had not been for grace, _ I'd have been in _ [G] Tennessee. _
_ Hang down your head, Tom Dooley.
_ Hang down your [D] head and cry, _ _ hang down [Am] your head, Tom Dooley.
_ [D] Poor boy you found [G] to die, _ _ _ this time _ tomorrow.
_ _ Reckon where [D] I'll be, _ _ down in some lonesome valley. _
_ Hanging by my white [G] oak tree. _
_ _ _ Tom Dooley was hanged for the murder of Laurie Foster.
In Wilkes County, [D] North Carolina at [Am] sunrise, May 3rd, _ [A] 1868. _
_ _ Have a nice day, [G] Tom.
Oh, Jim, you should hang down your head, Tom Dooley.
_ Hang down your head [D] and cry, [D] _
_ hang [A] down your head, Tom Dooley.
_ Poor [G] boy found to die. _
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