Key: C
Introduction:
Am D
Gus checked his pocket-watch it was a quarter past nine
Am G E
He caught a train to Baton Rouge and bought a copy of the times.
Am D
Pulled out a faded picture of a woman with coal black hair
F E
She had gone out east and he prayed he'd find her there.
She met a gambler who said hailed from New Orleans
C G Am C G E
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He talked to the man a while that had tore the ticket stubs
Am F C G
You're gonna live and die by the blade and you'll reap what you sow
Am F C G
Cause life the things that happens on our way to growing old
Am F C G
If the truth was known to woman she could steal her lover's soul
Am E Am
She knows that the devil pays in gold.
G Am C G E
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The pulled into the station and he packed his cap and ball
G Am C G E
Pulled a pistol on the desk clerk cause he would not take a bribe and then he shouted
Give me their number and you might walk out alive
G Am C G E
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C G Am C G Am C G Am E Am E(strum
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The gambler lay before him he was sprawled across that chair
G Am C G E
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