Penitentiary Blues Chords by David Allan Coe

_ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _
_ [Db] _ _ [Abm] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Ab] _ Got there on Monday, [F] _ behind this [Dbm] wall and all them [Db] doors.
_ [Ab] _ _ _ [Bm] _ [Db] _ Got me doing work, woman, [Abm] _ [Ab] _ and I never worked before.
_ _ _ _ _ [Bbm] _ About to blow my [Ab] [F] fuse, _ [Ab] mmm, penitentiary blues. _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ [Ab] They give me clothes on Tuesday, _ _ [Db] like I ain't [Abm] never seen [Eb] before. _
[Ab] _ _ _ _ [Db] The kind of [Abm] rags my mama [Gbm] used to scrub our [Abm] kitchen floor.
[Ab] _
_ _ _ [G] _ Funny [Abm] square toe shoes, _ mmm, penitentiary [Ab] blues. _ _
_ _ _ _ All that marijuana, _ sedentary cocaine.
[Bb] Now they're [Abm] taking blood tests from my heroin phase, oh baby. _ _ _ _
The things I used to [Ab] do now.
[Ebm] _ [Abm] _ _ _
I [Eb] was prone to [Abm] lose, _
[Ab] _ penitentiary blues. _ _ _ _ _
_ I [B] miss my Main [Dbm] Street women, [Abm] _ _
I miss my [Ab] Howard Street wine.
[Ebm] _ _ [Ab] _ I [Abm] _ miss the cats down on the [Bbm] corner.
[Abm] _ We used to have a swinging time trap. _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ Chalking up our [F] [Db] fuse, [Ab] _ mmm, penitentiary blues.
_ _ _ [Db] _ [Abm] _ [Ab] _
All that marijuana, _ sedentary cocaine. _
[F] Now they're taking [Ab] blood [Abm] tests from my heroin phase, oh baby.
The [Db] _ _ [Abm] things [Ab] I used to do now. _ _ _ _ _ _
I was [Eb] prone to [Abm] lose, _ penitentiary blues.
[Ab] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _