TABBED BY: Ross Guertin 
TUNING: EADGBe


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'Bout the time my daddy left to fight the big war
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I saw my first pistol in the general store
       B5
In the general store, I was thirteen
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I thought it was the finest thing I ever had seen
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Asked if I could have it someday when I grew up
                                          B5
Mama dropped a dozen eggs and really blew up
    B5
She really blew up, I didn't understand
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Mama said the pistol is the devil's right hand


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    A5
The devil's right hand
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The devil's right hand
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Mama said the pistol is the devil's right hand.

My very first pistol was a cap and ball colt.
Shoot as fast as lightnin' but she'd load a might slow.
Load a might slow. I soon found out it'll
Get you into trouble,but it can't get you out.
So then I went and bought myself a colt 45.
It was called a peace maker, but i never knew why.
Never knew why, I didn't understand.
Mama says the pistol is the devil's right hand.

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       F#5
Well I got into a card game in a company town
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Caught a miner cheatin' and I shot the dog down
  C#5
I shot the dog down, I watched the man fall
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Never touched his holster, never had a chance to draw
    F#5
The trial was in the morning and they drug me outta bed
     F#5                                   C#5
They asked me how i pleaded, not guilty I said
    C#5
Not guilty I said, you got the wrong man
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Nothin touched the trigger but the devils right hand

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