Scottsboro Boys Chords by Leadbelly

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[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] Now this is a song by Scott Burboy.
_ _ I made this song about Scott Burboy because I've been all over Alabama, Morninghound,
_ _ Montgomery, _ _ _ and in Alabama, there must be a gym court or something like that, because
_ they're trying to lose something and they're trying to keep the [Eb] others out, and I don't
see why don't you turn all of them out.
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And this is a song with Scott Burboy.
Woody [Dm] Alabama, and you [Eb] better watch out, [F] the landlord's against you, gonna jump [Bb] and [Ab] shout.
Gospel, gospel, gospel, [F] gospel, what springtime is [Ab] all about.
Woody [Dm] Alabama, and you [Eb] better watch out, [F] the landlord's against you, [Eb] gonna jump and shout.
[Ab] Gospel, gospel, gospel, gospel, what springtime is all about.
I'm gonna talk to [Bb] Joe Lutz, _ _ as I'm told he's a jerk to me.
_ _ [Eb] Tony never tried to magnify an Alabama wreath.
[Dm] Woody Alabama, [Eb] and you better watch out, the [F] landlord's against you, gonna [Eb] jump and shout.
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Gospel, gospel, gospel, [Eb] what springtime is all about.
[F] Woody Alabama, [Eb] and you better watch out, the [Dm] landlord's against you, gonna [Eb] jump and shout.
[Ab] Gospel, gospel, gospel, [Eb] what springtime is all about.
I'm gonna tell all the colored [Bb] people, _
_ _ [Eb] living on sugar _ [C]
hill.
_ _ [Eb] I want you to know we're goody Alabama, to try to live.
[Ab] Woody Alabama, and you [Eb] better watch out, the landlord's against you, gonna jump and shout.
[Ab] Gospel, gospel, gospel, what springtime is all [Ab] about.
[F] Woody Alabama, [Eb] and you better watch out, the [F] landlord's against you, gonna jump [Eb] and shout.
Gospel, gospel, gospel, what springtime is all [Eb] about. _
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_ _ Woody [F] Alabama, and you better [Eb] watch out, the [F] landlord's against you, gonna [Eb] jump and shout.
[Ab] Gospel, gospel, gospel, [Eb] what springtime is all about.
[Ab] I'm gonna tell all the [Bb] colored people, _ _ [Eb] living in Harlem [Bb] swing.
_ _ I want you to know we're goody Alabama, to try to sing.
[F] Woody Alabama, [Eb] and you better watch out, the [F] landlord's against you, gonna jump [Eb] and shout.
[Ab] Gospel, gospel, gospel, [Eb] what springtime is [Ab] all about.
[F] Woody Alabama, and you better [Eb] watch out, the landlord's against [Bb] you, gonna jump and [Ab] shout.
Gospel, gospel, [Eb] gospel, what springtime is all about. _
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This song is about the Scottsville boys. _ _
_ The boys left on a trip, you know, to ride in a freight train.
_ [Eb] And they met two white women in there, you know.
The white women was boofs and tooth, what we called it.
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And they was beating their way along, and they met up to the boys, there was about nine boys.
_ And they rode along with them, and they went out, one of the women said it wasn't so, and the other said it was.
Now they gonna hold all of them for just one supper, which I don't think none of the boys would do.
But they turned loose before, and now they got a few more.
I think they ought to turn them all to loose.
That's what they call it happens when they put the boys in jail.
_ Give some of them life, and some got loose.
But I don't think it's true, but anyhow, the last word is this.
_ I'm gonna tell [Eb] all the colored [Bb] people, _ _ [Ab] they've been in Harlem [Bb] some way.
_ [Eb] Don't you know, Woody Alabama, you try to sing.
Woody [F] Alabama, any better [Eb] watch out, than [F] a lot of kids be gonna jump [Eb] in the shower.
I'll show you about in Alabama, what's the Jim Crow.
Woody [F] Alabama, any [Cm] better watch out, [F] than a lot of kids be gonna [Ab] jump in the shower.
I'll show you about [Eb] in Alabama, _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ what's the Jim Crow.
A white woman says something, it must be so.
And she says something about a colored boy, there's a thousand colored men, they kill all of them.
Just with that one woman, if she ain't telling the truth, it don't make any difference.
Why, cause it's Jim Crow, and I know it's so, cause this gospel boy can tell you about [F] it.
Woody Alabama, [Eb] any better watch out, than a lot of kids be gonna jump in the shower.
[Ab] I suppose, gospel [Eb] boy, tell you what it's all about.
[Ab] I'm gonna talk to a [Bb] jeweler, _ _ [Ab] and tell him to listen [Eb] [Bb] to me.
_ _ [Eb] Don't you ever try to make nobody's Alabama read.
[Cm] Woody Alabama, any [Eb] better watch out, [F] than a lot of kids be gonna jump in the [Ab] shower.
I suppose, gospel boy, tell you what it's all about.
[F] Woody Alabama, any [Eb] better watch out, [F] than a lot of kids be gonna [Eb] jump in the shower.
[Ab] I suppose, gospel [Eb] boy, tell you what it's all about. _ _ _ _ _ _
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