Chords for Lightnin' Hopkins Penetentiary Blues

_ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ I sure hate to hear the news about you boy.
_ _ [Am] I hate to hear you [A] was prison bound. _ _ _ _
_ _ Yo, [D] I hate to hear the news about you. _
_ _ _ [Am] _ I hate to hear you was prison [A] bound. _ _ _ _ _ _
Well if you [Em] don't be careful, _ _ [E] _ cold lightning may be spinning around.
Lord have mercy, that [A] sounds good to me.
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_ Yeah!
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_ [E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _
I [A] found out six months ain't no sinless.
[Am] _ One year [A] ain't no great long time. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] Six months ain't no sinless. _
One year [A] ain't no great long time. _ _
_ _ _ [E] So you know I had a dash to do.
[D] _ _ [F#] One [A] to nine.
[E] _
_ _ _ _ _ I said [A] loving you is a crime.
_ _ [Am] Maybe I don't even care. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] Loving you is a crime.
_ _ Look girl, I [A] don't even care. _ _ _ _ _
_ [Am] I don't [E] care if I get a lifetime.
[D] _
I don't worry [A] about your legs or [Em] chair.
_ _ [A]
I'll play some blues now. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Am] Lord me and [A] O'Brien _ [Am] _
playing the game they [A] call seven months. _ _
_ _ _ [D] Well me and [Am] O'Brien _ playing [F#] the game they call seven [A] months.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Well you know my [B] buddy win the money.
_ _ [A] Lord he was scared to pick it up.
[E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[Am] Well I got up this morning.
_ [A] _ I feel all sad and blue. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I got up this morning lightening hawk.
_ [Am] Lord old son of a tailor feel all sad and blue.
[A] _ _
_ _ Well I [E] reached over to the pillow and grabbed my baby.
He said [D] honey, I'm here [A] to rest with you.
What you about [B] to do?
Let's go out and find out.
[A] _ _ [E] _ [A] Oh that night I _ [Am] _ _ saved myself.
[Em] Oh _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ [D] that night I _ _ saved [A] myself. _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bm] Thinking about my baby.
_ _ _ [D] Ain't no happy.
_ [Em] _ _ _ [A] _ _ Ain't no happy.
[Am] _ _ _ [D] _ See my smiling face again.
[Am] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ See my smiling face.
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Oh baby, [E] remember how old I was.
_ _ [D] Your daddy out there, O'Brien, _ _ [A] _
he had a slight mood.
_ [Am] You know the trouble thing when you go to the penitentiary.
_ _ _ [Am] _ You [A] don't know what it's all about. _ _ _ _ _
It's a trouble [C#] thing to go to the penitentiary. _ _
_ [D] _ _ When you don't know what it's [A] all about.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Why you [Em] thinking about you may come back home.
[D] _ You know but it's a mighty [A] big time.
[E] _ _ _ [A] _ _
Yeah _ boy, _ _ _ _
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_ _ [Em] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [F#m] take [A] it easy.
How you doing [Am] lightening, how you doing?
I've been crying by the penitentiary.
_ [D] _ I've been wondering, [A] I don't want to go no more.
_ _ _ _ _ I've been [D] crying by the penitentiary.
_ _ I've been [A] wondering, I don't want to go no more. _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] California's a long way from [D] Texas.
[B] Don't want to go to San Crispin, [E] don't you know.
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