Тональность

 
 A 
Well that judge he found me guilty of wrong doing  
    D                           A 
And he sentenced me to hang in mid-july  
 A 
He look down at me and said you’re life’s a ruin  
 B7                                     E 
If I were you I'd break right down and cry  
     A 
But nobody seems to care that I ain't guilty  
   D                                   A 
Lord I never did the things they said I've done  
 A 
But I guess they're gonna have to hang somebody  
          E                               A 
and it's lookin like I'm goin to be the one  
 
Chorus:
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(So just) send my body home on a freight train  
     D                                A 
and don't worry none that I don't go first class  
 D                      A 
end my body home on a freight train  
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So everyone can see me when I pass  
           D                         A 
and don't worry none about no fancy funeral  
 D                               A 
Cause it don't matter how they lay me down  
 D                       A 
Just see they bury me out by mama's apple tree  
                  E               A 
and send my body back to my home town  
  
 A 
Well my mama was one damn hard workin woman  
        D                                A 
And she tried to raise us kids without a pa  
     D                                A 
the last thing that she said she was on her dying bed  
     B7                                E 
was son don't get in trouble with the law  
    A 
whenever my time comes to meet my maker  
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I'm going to try to do my very best  
     D                  A 
I'm going to try and stand and take it like a man  
                  E               A 
when they ask if I have one request  
  
Chorus:
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(I'll say) send my body home on a freight train  
     D                                A 
and don't worry none that I don't go first class  
 D                      A 
end my body home on a freight train  
 B7                            E 
So everyone can see me when I pass  
           D                         A 
and don't worry none about no fancy funeral  
 D                               A 
Cause it don't matter how they lay me down  
 D                       A 
Just see they bury me out by mama's apple tree  
                  E               A 
and send my body back to my home town