Chords for Tim O'Brien & Bryan Sutton ~ Ninety Nine Years and One Dark Day ~ The Station Inn, Nashville, TN

_ [B] _ _ _ [G#] _ [B] _ _ _
_ Bluegrass KFB.
This is about a lifetime in the prison.
You get [E] 99 years and one dark
day.
That's when you die.
_ [A#] That's the worst day.
You sing [F] it the best, Tim.
[E] You sing it the best.
I'm going to try.
_ _ [G#m] I'll tell you one thing.
There's a high note [D] in this song.
We'll see what happens.
[B] _ _ _
[G#m] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ _ [Bm] _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ [F#] _ [B] _ _
_ _ _ I've been in this prison 20 [F#] years or more.
I shot my woman with a [B] .44.
_ I'll be right
in.
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _
I got one dark day. _ _ _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
Well, the food is bad and the [F#] bed is hard.
I spend all _ [C#] day breaking rocks in the yard.
Well, there ain't no _ change.
You're going to stay [E] that way.
I [C#] got 99 years.
[F#] I got [B] one dark day.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ I didn't learn to read.
I didn't [F#] learn to write.
My whole life has been one [C#] big crime.
I never heard. _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [B] 99 [F#] years.
I got one [B] dark day.
_ _ [C#] _ _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _
[C#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ Well, there ain't no singing.
I'm going [F#] to sing you this song.
And it's that word that I [B] hang from.
My spade up.
[E] _ _ I got [B] 99 [F#] years.
I got one [B] dark day. _
_ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ [F#] _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ I didn't do any crime _ [F#] many years ago.
I shot my woman [B] with a .44. _ Happy birthday! _ _ _
[E] _ _ I got [C#] 99 years.
I got one dark day.
99 years.
[F#] I got one [B] dark day. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _