Chords for Murder In The First Degree Victoria Spivey

_ [C] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ Well, I'm laying here in this _ jailhouse scared as any fool can _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Yes, I'm laying here [F] in this jailhouse _ [Cm] scared as [F] any fool [C] can _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ I [G] believe they're gonna ask from what my lawyer _ _ [C] said
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ My man got running around with a woman he know I [Bm] can't _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ [Am] My man [F] got running around with a woman he know I [C] can't
Said _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] what's _ _
[G] up and [C] the world's rid of one dry-fledged man _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Em] I scrubbed him pots and [G] kettles, [Em] I washed and ironed [C] the white folks _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Yes, [F] I scrubbed him pots and kettles, I washed and ironed the white [C] folks
And _ _ _ he _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ got it like I made [C] it, I killed him, judge, and [G] that's all [C] I _ [B] know
_ [C] _ _
_ _ _ Judge, if you would kill your woman and had to come before _ me
_ If _ _
_ _ _ [Em] you [F] would kill the woman who trifled and had to [C] come before _ me _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ I'd [G] send her to the [D] gallows and [B] judge would let you [C] go _ [G] free _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] Had that I _ ain't done nothing, would kill the man what belongs to me
_ [G] _ [C] Had _
_ [Em] _ _ _ [Am] that [F] I ain't done nothing, would kill the man [B] what _ [C] belongs to me _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] And yeah, they got _ [G] me, joy, with murder in the first [C] degree
_ _ _ [G] _ _ [Cm] _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _