🎸 I Washed My Hands In Muddy Water chords by Stonewall Jackson

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I was born in Macon Georgia

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They kept my dad in the Macon jail

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Dad said Son if you keep your hands clean

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You won't hear them bloodhounds on your trail


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But I fell in with bad companions

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We robbed a man in Tennessee

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The sheriff caught me way up in Nashville

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They locked me up and threw away the key


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I washed my hands in muddy water

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I washed my hands but they didn't come clean

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I tried to do like Daddy told me

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But I must have washed my hands in a muddy stream


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I asked the jailor When's my time up

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He said son we won't forget

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And if you try to keep your hands clean

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We may make a good man of you yet


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I couldn't wait to do my sentence

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I broke out of the Nashville jail

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I just crossed the line of Georgia

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And I can hear them bloodhounds on my trail


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But I fell in with bad companions

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We robbed a man in Tennessee

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The sheriff caught me way up in Nashville

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They locked me up and threw away the key