Intro

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Old man down,
Em (022000@1)                                    Asus2Way (x02200@1)down down, down by the docks of the city.
Asus2
Blind and dirty,
Em (022000@1)                                     Asus2Asked (x02200@1)me for a dime, a dime for a cup of coffee.
  Em (022000@1)              D (xx0232@1)                        Asus2I (x02200@1)got no dime but I got some time to hear his story.

My name is August West,
And I love my Pearly Baker best more than my wine.
More than my wine -
More than my maker, though he's no friend of mine.

Everyone said,
I'd come to no good, I knew I would Pearly, believe them.
Half of my life,
I spent doin' time for some other fucker's crime,
                                                           A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1) AThe (x02220@1)other half found me stumbling 'round drunk on Burgundy wine

G (320003@1)          D (xx0232@1)  G/D (4x3121@7)D (xx0232@1)   A (x02220@1)            D (xx0232@1)   G/D (4x3121@7) DBut (xx0232@1)I'll get back      on my feet again someday,
    C (x32010@1)        G (320003@1)     C (x32010@1) G (320003@1)           D (xx0232@1)   Dsus4 (xx0233@1) DThe (xx0232@1)good Lord willin',      if He says I may.
                Asus4 (x02230@1)  A (x02220@1)             EmI (022000@1)know that the life      I'm livin's no good,
     Asus4 (x02230@1)    A (x02220@1)   Asus2 (x02200@1)A (x02220@1)       A7 (x02020@1)   EmI'll (022000@1)get a new start,        live the life I should.


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EmI'll (022000@1)get up and fly away,
                          Asus2I'll (x02200@1)get up and fly away, fly away.

Pearly's been true,
True to me, true to my dyin' day he said,
I said to him,
I said to him, "I'm sure she's been."
I said to him, "I'm sure she's been true to you."

Got up and wandered,
Wandered downtown, nowhere to go but just hang around.
I've got a girl,
Named Bonnie Lee, I know that girl's been true to me.
I know she's been, I'm sure she's been true to me.