Chords for Lightnin' Hopkins-Got Nowhere to Lay My Head

_ _ _ _ _ You know, one time I was hungry.
I didn't have no place to stay. _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] Of course, I'd been told so many times that _ it looked like that ought to be a teaching and a lesson to each and every one that was walking around _ half-hungry at the present [F#] time.
_ The fact of the [D] business is true by [F#] the means.
_ _ _ _ _ I walked many miles hungry and [D#] nobody _ seemed [E] _ to feel that I was looking fine or nothing like that.
It looked like I had everything I needed. _ _ _
_ That's the way they would [Em] look at me.
_ [E] So, he's all right.
He got what he needed. _ _ _ _
_ _ And I had an armor one day _ on my bended knee. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ I'm alone, my bended knee. _
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_ _ I had asked my good Lord in heaven, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Father, help me. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Help me, Jesus.
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[E] _ _ If you please. _ _ _
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_ Yes, I'm just a poor boy traveling. _
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_ _ _ Got no place to lay my black head down. _ _
You know, it's kind of bad. _ _ _ _ _
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I'm just [A] a poor boy traveling.
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_ place to lay my black head down. _
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_ Look like all [B] my friends have forgotten me.
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Oh, none of my dear friends come around. _
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_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [E] I asked the good Lord to forgive me. _
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_ Father, I won't do them things no [E] more.
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I asked the good Lord to forgive me. Oh, God.
_ _ _ _ _ Oh, Lord, I won't do them things no more. _ _ _
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_ _ I do [F] remember that the good book keeps on [B] teaching everybody,
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you've got to reap everything in the world you sow. _
_ _ _ _ If you sow a bad seed, you've got to reap a bad one.
_ _ _ And I cried [Em] all night.
I said,
Lord, I'm sorry. _ _ _ _
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_ _ Hush me.
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_ _ [Em] _ Hold it right there, baby.
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[E] I got just one more word to say. _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Hold it right there, darling. _ _ _ _
_ _ Poor lightning got just one more word to say.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ I say you may be [B] living good right now, _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ [C] but still you [Em] got a dying day.
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_ _ _ _ And she said, why?
I said,
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