Chords for Tony Joe White - Roosevelt and Ira Lee

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We're going to take it down to [E] the smart boy time, y'all. _ _
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_ _ _ It's about 12 boys and they're sitting down in the woods one night.
_ _ _ Sitting there and finding out what they're going to lose.
_ For the night. _
_ _ Their name's a Roosevelt. Roosevelt. _
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_ _ The _ _ _ _ _ river runs dark and muddy. _
And the moon is on the rise.
_ _ Now all the creatures in the small world
_ look like the big boys. _
_ _ Roosevelt and Mary Lee
are sitting there all alone.
_ _ Iron Lee, John Lee, and Roosevelt
_ sit [Eb] ashore at the mouth of the [E] river.
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_ [A] Well, I don't know. _ _ _
_ So did [E] they. _ _ _ _
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_ _ [B] Some slipped on a rubber boot
_ [E] _ along that river water bridge.
_ _ That'll mean they knew that the night would be [Em] a bummer
[C] when arrows dipped on the water [B] must have made [E] easy.
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_ _ [A] Oh, my Lord. _ _
_ _ [E] Somebody help me. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ Iron Lee, John Lee, Roosevelt
_ when he quit his screaming kid
_ and said let's forget about the Mootrow police
[Bb] and go out and get some chicken.
[A] Roosevelt [E] said yes.
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_ _ [A] I'm going out there. _ _
_ So is [E] the man too. _ _ _
_ Let me get him. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ I'll [A] get money.
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[B] _ _ _ The moon [Bb] is _ _
[E] _ on the rise. _ _ _
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[A] _ _ [E] All _ _ _ _ _ _ _ the creatures in _ _ the small world
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