Key: A
Introduction: A D F#m E
A D F#mE
He's going back to Georgia
Because he knows time, and time has come
A D F#mE
How long will you stay?
Boy, you don't got nine lives to waste
A C F#mE
She believed every word he told her
About the troubles and how they start
A D F#mE
How long will you stay?
Boy, you don't got nine lives to waste
D G F#mA
She didn't believe
She didn't believe
D G F#mE
She didn't believe
A D F#mE
He made a promise to no one
That he could right a wrong
A D F#mE
How long will you stay?
Boy, you don't got nine lives to waste
D G F#mA
She didn't believe
She didn't believe
D G F#mA
She didn't believe what they told her, about her lover
Nothing left bet her tears, and theirs were laughter