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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 21:54:51 -0700
From: Collins Crapo 
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature,alt.guitar.tab

MUDDY WATER
songwriting credits unavailable
performed by Johnny Rivers
tab transcribed by Collins Crapo 

G/ (320003@1)/ / 2 /
                     DI (xx0232@1)was home in Macon, Georgia
                   D7 (xx0212@1)           GThey (320003@1)kept my Daddy   in the Macon jail
                                CHe (x32010@1)said, "Son, if you keep your hands clean, uh huh
G (320003@1)                  D7 (xx0212@1)                GYou (320003@1)won't hear those bloodhounds on your trail"

Verse 2:
I fell in with bad companions
I robbed a man up in Tennessee
And I got caught way up in Nashville, uh huh now
And they locked me up and threw away the key

CHORUS (same pattern as above 2 verses):
I washed my hands in muddy water
I washed my hands, but they didn't come clean
I tried to do like my daddy told me, now
I must have washed my hands in a muddy stream

Verse 3:
E7 (020130@1)          A (x02220@1)                     E (022100@1) I asked the jailer, said "When's my time up?"
             E7 (020130@1)                   AHe (x02220@1)said "Son,  you know we won't forget
                                  DAnd (xx0232@1)if you try and just keep your hands clean, uh huh
    A (x02220@1)                E7 (020130@1)            AWhy (x02220@1)we may just make a good man of you yet"

Verse 4:
But I didn't wait to get my time in
I broke down, broke out the Nashville jail
I just crossed Atlanta, Georgia, oh now
And I can hear those bloodhounds on my trail

(chorus; same pattern as above 2 verses)

F7 (131241@1)          Bb (x1333x@1)           F (133211@1) I washed my hands in muddy water
                   F7 (131241@1)                   BbI (x1333x@1)washed my hands,   but they didn't come clean
                            EbI (x43121@3)tried to do like my daddy told me, now
  Bb (x1333x@1)                F7 (131241@1)             BbI (x1333x@1)must have washed my hands in a muddy stream

(repeat last line twice)

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