Key: G
Introduction:
G# C# G#
Verse
G# C# G#
Hangin' on to every nickel and every dime
C# D#
Never had a dollar to call mine
G# C#
I gotta work tomorrow just to pay for the day
G# D# G#
Well I worked all that I can stand now I long for the day
G# C# G#
Then I can sleep in my white satin bed
C# D#
With a red velvet pillow for my head
G# C#
They'll lower me into my grave with gropes of gold and bread
G# D# G# E F#
And I'll sleep for eternity in my white satin bed
Verse
A D A
Well I never had no soft warm bed before
D E
Just a cold park bench or a boxcar floor
A D
Thumbin' north to the coal mines or south to cotton fields
A E A
Oh hangin' on it won't be long, till I'll know how it feels
A D A
To sleep in my white satin bed
D E
With a red velvet pillow for my head
A D
They'll lower me into my grave with gropes of gold and bread
A E A
And I'll sleep for eternity in my white satin bed
Outro
A E A
Yes I'll sleep for eternity in my white satin bed