Verse 1 
 
A5 
Well that judge he found me guilty of wrong doing 
   D5                           A5 
he sentenced me to hang in mid-july 
A5 
He look down at me and said you are a ruin 
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If I were you I'd break right down and cry 
    A5 
But nobody seems to care that I ain't guilty 
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I never did the things they said I've done 
A5 
But it looks like they're gonna to hang somebody 
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and it's lookin like I'm goin to be the one 

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(So just) send my body home on a freight train 
    D5                                A5 
and don't worry none that I don't go first class 
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Send my body home on a freight train 
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So everyone can see me when I pass 
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and don't worry none about no fancy funeral 
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it don't matter how they lay me down 
D5                       A5 
see they bury me out by mama's apple tree 
                      E5               A5 
and just send my body back to my home town
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Verse 2 
A5 
My mama was one damn hard workin woman 
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she tried to raise us kids without a pa 
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the last thing that she said she was on her dying bed 
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was boy don't get in trouble with the law 
     A5 
Well whenever my time comes to meet my maker 
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I'm going to try to do my very best 
    D5                  A5 
I'm going to stand and take it like a man 
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when they ask if I have one request 
 
I'll say .....(repeat chorus)