Chords for Calvin Russell - Sam Brown

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Ah, there we [G] go.
Thank you very much. _
It's really nice to be here.
[C] _ _ I'm, [G] uh, without a president at the minute.
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[G] It kind of feels good. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Bm] Old [C] Sam Brown _ [Dm] was [C] _ a lonesome convict _
[Dm] _ [C] _ And he [Dm] came from _ _ _ a red-river [G] town _
_ _ _ _ [C] And there ain't no _ two ways about it
_ _ _ It was [D] Texas law [Dm] _ _ _ [G] _ that shot Sam [C] down _ _ _ _ _
Old Sam Brown, _ [Dm] _ [C] _ he told me his story
_ Now it seems he [Dm] bad, _ _ [G] _
check writer was he _ _ _ _
Seven [C] times down [Dm] and [C] _
_ seven times sorry _
Had to [Dm] spend his life _ _ _
[G] _ under lock and [C] key _ _
_ _ I [F] guess that some _ would _ say [C] he was worthless _
And _ [F] _ [C] _ [F] that he got _ only _ what [C] was fair _
But _ _ [E] _ [F] I'm here to say right now
[C] Old Sam was just one little [F] person
_ Who _ _ _ got [Dm] caught up _ _ _ in [G] this _ life's _
[A] _ great [C] pull and tear _ _ _
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_ _ _ Now Old Sam Brown _ _ liked all them outlaws
[Dm] _ [C] _ _ [Bm] Billy [Dm] the Kid _ and Frank and Jesse _ [G] James
And _ _ [B] I [C] guess he read _ _ a thousand stories
_ _ _ _ All of the [Dm] days _ [G] when _ they were on the [C] plains
_ _ _ _ Now [Fm] tell me [F] why _ _ didn't [C] someone help him
_ _ _ _ Just to [F]
believe _ _ in [C] himself a little too
[Am] _ _ [C] _ _ [Am] _ [F] Oh [Dm] hell, no, they'd rather kill a man [C] about a _ [F] hundred years
So _ _ _ [D] they can prove [Dm] _ _ _
_ _ that [G] they are tougher _ than _ _ _ [C] you
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_ _ _ Old Sam Brown _ _ died on a Sunday morning _ _
_ _ [Em] Laying [Dm] right there _ _ _ in the cement [G] cell _ _
_ With [C] ragged _ _ convicts there to mourn his passing _ _
_ _ And [Dm] no loved ones [G] _
_ there to bid [C] farewell _ _ _
Now they [F] told him, Sam, _ _ _ straighten up, [C] fly right _ _ _
They tell [F] him, Sam, _ _ _ _ don't you stay out [G] late at night
_ _ _ _ Oh [F] and why _ _ _ [Em] can't you be like [C] I am, _ _ [F] Sam _ _ _
_ _ Oh will you [D] ever, [Dm] _ _
_ _ _ will [G] you ever _ _ _ [C] see the light _ _
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