E|--0-0---0-0-------0-------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--1-1---1-1-------1-------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--0-0---0-0-------2-------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--2-2---0-0---0---2--------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--3-3---2-0---0---0--------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--0-0---0-0---0---0--------------------------------------------------------------|


There is also an instrumental section which is just riffing over the verse chords with some embellishments and
the odd Dsus2 thrown in. 

There is walk down from the 5th fret of the A string as a sort of a turn around at the end though. I think
it is like this - just pick the bass note and strum each chord a few times.

[Riff 2]

E|--0---0---0---0-------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--1---1---1---1-------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--0---0---0---2-------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--0---0---0---2--------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--5---3---0---0--------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--0---3---2---0--------------------------------------------------------------|

He also does this at the end of the the Choruses and the "There's a pretty girl" Verses. Just listen out for
them and you'll see where they are. You can just play the normal chord progression too and it sounds totally
fine. It's up to you - play around with it.



[Intro]

Am (With Riff 1 thrown in at the end.)

[Verse 1]

Am                                    C               D
I came to tell my story to all these young and eager minds
     C                                        Bm           Am
To look in their unspoiled faces and their curious bright eyes
Am                                 C                 D
Stories of corruption, crime and killing, yes it's true
 C                                    Bm                   Am
Greed and fixed elections, guns and drugs and whores and booze

[Verse 2]

Am                                   C               D
It's been a while since I put on a suit of my own clothes
C                                         Bm              Am
And even longer since I cast my shadow on a church house door
Am                                    C                   D
They say every sin is deadly, but I believe they may be wrong
C                                  Bm                 Am
I'm guilty of all seven, and I don't feel too bad at all

[Chorus 1]

Am                                                   C                  D
I used to have a wad of hundred dollar bills in the back pocket of my suit
C                                          Bm            Am
I had a .45 underneath my coat, and another one in my boot
Am                                       C                 D
I drove a big ole Cadillac, bought a new one anytime I pleased
C                                            Bm               Am
And I put more lawmen in the ground than Alabama put cottonseed

[Verse 3]

Am                                           C                   D
I spent a few years on vacation, sanctioned by the state I mentioned
C                                             Bm                Am
But see, a man like me don't do no time too hard to come back from
Am                                       C                    D
The meanest of the mean you see, you lock away and toss the key
C                                                      Bm              Am
But they're just loud mouth punks to me, I've scraped meaner off my shoe

[Verse 4]

Am                                     C                  D
Somewhere, I ain't saying, there's a hole that holds a judge
C                                      Bm            Am
The last one that I dug myself, and I must admit I was
Am                           C                D
Sad to lay him in it, but I did the best I could
C                                         Bm                     Am
Once his Honor grows a conscience, well folks, that there just ain't no good

[Verse 5]

Am                                             C                  D
There's a pretty girl out there said, "Daddy, you stay cool tonight
C                                       Bm               Am
All I need from you is to come home and be here by my side
Am                                      C               Dsus2
Say what you gotta say to shut their Bibles and their mouths
C                                           Bm                Am
If they was to tie a noose, they'd have to lay their Bibles down

[Instrumental]

Am   C   D   C   Bm   Am

Am   C   Dsus2   C   Bm   Am   (or riff 2)

[Verse 6]

Am                                  C           D
I ain't here to save no souls, and even if I could
C                                      Bm               Am
I could never save enough to put back half the ones I took
Am                                     C                 D
So if they rest in torment, you can't say it's cause of me
C                                                Bm             Am
They'd long been bought and paid for like that fool's in Tennessee

[Chorus 2]

Am                                                   C                  D
I used to have a wad of hundred dollar bills in the back pocket of my suit
C                                          Bm            Am
I had a .45 underneath my coat, and another one in my boot
Am                                       C                 D
I drove a big ole Cadillac, bought a new one anytime I pleased
C                                            Bm               Am
And I put more lawmen in the ground than Alabama put cottonseed

[Verse 7]

Am                                             C                  D
There's a pretty girl out there said, "Daddy, you stay cool tonight
C                                       Bm               Am
All I need from you is to come home and be here by my side
Am                                      C               Dsus2
Say what you gotta say to shut their Bibles and their mouths
C                                           Bm                Am
If they was to tie a noose, they'd have to lay their Bibles down