Chords
Have Mercy On The Criminal

Key: C

Introduction:

 Cm                                 G7  B                   Cm  Bb                       Fm  Ab 
Have you heard the dogs at night somewhere on the hill?
                                     Cm  G                 Cm                                     G                        B  Eb  Bb  G  B 
Chasing some poor criminal & I guess they're out to kill.
                   Cm                             G7  B                       Eb  Bb                 Fm  Ab 
Oh there must be shackles on his feet and mother in his eyes.
                               Cm  G                               Cm                                 G       D   G   D  G       F   D   B 
Stumbling thru devil dark with the hound pack in full cry.
     Ab                 C   Eb   F   Bb                   D   F   G         Cm 
          Have mercy               on   the criminal                 who is running from the law.
 Ab             C         Eb       F         Bb                                 D   F   G               Cm 
Are you blind             to the wind of change?                 Don't you hear him anymore?
 Ab7           F   Eb             Ab     Ab7               Ab   G   Gb   Fm 
Praying Lord       you gotta help me.                           I am never gonna sin again
 Cm                       Bb                   Ab7                                     G7                                           Cm   G7 
Just take these chains from round my legs.   Sweet Jesus I'll be your friend.
                           Cm                       G7  B 
Now have you ever seen the white teeth gleam
                                 Cm  Bb                         Fm  Ab 
          while you lie on a cold damp ground?
                                                               Cm  G 
You're taking in the face of a rifle butt
                               Cm                             G                              B  Eb  Bb  G  B 
          while the wardens hold you down.
                       Cm                     G7  B                                         Eb  Bb                             Fm  Ab 
And you've never seen a friend in years.   Oh, it turns your heart to stone.
                                                       Cm  G 
You jump the walls and the dogs run free,
                           Cm                                       G         D   G   D  G       F   D   B 
          and the grave's gonna be your home.