Chords for Caroline Herring - "Camilla" - Camilla

_ _ _ _ This song is called Camilla and it's about a woman named Marion King who went to visit her friend's daughter in jail in Camilla, Georgia in 1962
during the Albany Civil Rights Movement and she was six months pregnant and had her three kids with her and
The [D#] deputy sheriff wasn't interested in [C#] visitors that day
_ [F#] _ _ [C#m] _
_ [F#] _ _ [B] _ _ [F#] _ _ [C#m] _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ Mama [C#m] sweet mama
_ [B] Where [F#] are you going?
_ With [C#m] all your babies [F#] in that
_ Casserole
I'm [C#m] going to the [F#] jailhouse in
Camilla, Georgia
To [C#m] see a woman and ask for [F#] her parole
_ _ [C#m] _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ [F#] Mama [C#m] sweet mama
[B] Why [F#] are you beaten?
Why [C#m] are your [B] babies scattered [F#] on the ground?
The [C#m] sheriff slapped [B] me and
[F#] Then he struck me down
He [C#m] kept on kicking
[B] till I [F#] blacked out
[G#] _ [B] This old Georgia [F#] town's knocked me from my [C#] feet
And I see [F#] a blue-eyed devil looking [C#] down at me
_ _ [F#] _
_ [C#m] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
Mama [C#] sweet mama
[F#] Why did you do it?
Why [C#m] did you not move [F#] back into the crowd?
Ella [C#m] Mae was watching
[F#] From the jailhouse window I
[C#m] Had to show her [B] I was proud
_ [C#m]
This [B] old Georgia town's knocked me from my feet
[G#]
And I see [B] a blue-eyed devil
Looking [C#] down at me
[C#m]
This [B] old Georgia town's knocked me from my feet
[C#m]
And I see [B] a blue-eyed devil looking [C#] down at me _
_ [F#] Mama [C#m] sweet mama
[B] What's [F#] happened to you
Your [C#m] pregnant body
[F#] Standing so tough
My [C#m] unborn baby
Is [F#] no longer
Now [C#m] I'm a lawyer
[B] Is that
Enough?
Is that enough? Enough?
[F#] _ _ [C#m] _
_ [F#] _ _ Is that enough?
[C#m] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _