A5 C5 Spider John is my name friends D5 A5 I'm in between freights and sure would be obliged C5 G5 C5 G5 If I could share your compa-ny A5 C5 D5 G5 I'm on my way to nowhere... Been runnin' from my past A5 C5 G5 C5 G5 Runnin' from the things I used to beeee-ee-ee A5 C5 Now, I know my words sound strange to you D5 A5 But if you wait till my song is sung and the story's told C5 G5 C5 G5 You might come to under-stand A5 C5 D5 G5 Why I'm old and bent and Devil spent, and runnin' out of time A5 C5 D5 When not long ago I held a Royal Flush in my hand CHORUS E5 E5 I was a supermarket fool A5 E5 E5 A5 I was a motor bank stool pidgeon, robbin' my home-town E5 E5 A5 I thought I'd lost my blues. Yes, I thought I'd paid my dues F5 C5 E5 E5 I thought I'd found a life to suit my style G5 F5 C5 A5 And old Spider John, the robber man... long, tall, and handsome G5 F5 C5 A5 Yes, old Spider John with a loaded hand, takin' ransom A5 C5 Then one day I met Diamond Lil D5 She was the sweetest thing, I declare, A5 C5 G5 C5 G5 That the summer wind had ever blown my way A5 C5 D5 G5 Lil, she had no idea of my il-lustrious occu-pation A5 C5 G5 C5 G5 She thought I was a saint, not a sinner gone a-straaay-aaay A5 C5 D5 Spider, he loved his Lilly so much, he could not confess his sins A5 C5 G5 C5 G5 For he knew if he did, she would surely take her leave A5 C5 But you know that the word got around and Lilly left town D5 G5 And he never saw her a-gain A5 C5 D5 Tossin' and turnin', causin' his heart to grieve [REPEAT CHORUS] A5 C5 That is all my story D5 A5 It's been these thirty years since I took to the road C5 G5 C5 G5 To find my precious jewel one A5 C5 D5 G5 If you see my Lilly, won't you give her my re-gards? A5 C5 G5 Tell her ol' Spider got tangled in the black web that he spun A5 C5 G5 C5 G5 You can tell her ol' Spider got tangled in the black web that he spun
