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Cocaine blues


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1. Early one morning while makin' the rounds,

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    I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down,

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    I went right home and I went to bed,

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    I stuck a lovin' forty-four beneath my head.


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2.   Got up next morning and I grabbed that gun,

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    I took a shot of cocaine and away I run,

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    made a good run but I run too slow,

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    they overtook me down in Juarez Mexico.


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3.     Late n the hot joint takin' the pill,

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    inwalked the sheriff from Jericho Hill.

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    He said, “Willy Lee your name is not Jack Brown,

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    you're the dirty hack that shot your woman down”.


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4.   Oh yes, o yes,  my name's is Billy Lee,

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    if you've got a warrant just a - read it to me,

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    I shot her down because she made me sore,

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    I thought I was her daddy but she had five more.


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5. When I was arrested I was dressed in black,

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    they put me on a train and they took me back,

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    had no friend for to  go my bail,

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    they stuck my dried-up carcass in the county jail.


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6.    Early next morning 'bout at half past nine,

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    I saw the sheriff comin' down the line,

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    that sheriff yelled as he cleared his throat,

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    he said, “Come on you dirty hack into the district court.


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7.    Into the courtroom my trial began,

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    where I was handled by twelve honest men.

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    Just before the jury started out,

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    I saw that little judge commence to look about.


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8. In about five minutes in walked a man,

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    holding the verdict in his right hand,

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    the verdict read “In the first degree”,

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    I hollered Lordy Lordy, have mercy on me.


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9.    The judge he smiled as he picked up his pen,

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    ninety-nine years in the Folsom Penn,

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    ninety-nine years underneath that ground,

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    I can't forget that day I shot that bad bitch down.


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    Come on you gotta listen on to me,

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    stay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be.


(capo 1st)


    (Johnny Cash)