Reasons I Cheat

Verse 1

A
Well that judge he found me guilty 
of wrong doing
   D                           A
he sentenced me to hang in mid-july
A
He look down at me and said you are 
a ruin
B7                                
If I were you I'd break right down
     E
 and cry
    A
But nobody seems to care that I 
ain't guilty
  D                             
I never did the things they said 
      A
I've done
A
But it looks like they're gonna to 
hang somebody
         E                         
and it's lookin like I'm goin to be
      A
 the one



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A         D                      
(So just) send my body home on a 
A
freight train
    D                              
and don't worry none that I don't 
  A
go first class
D                      A
Send my body home on a freight train
B7                            E
So everyone can see me when I pass
          D                        
and don't worry none about no fancy
 A
 funeral
D                               A
it don't matter how they lay me down
D                       A
see they bury me out by mama's apple
 tree
                      E         
and just send my body back to my 
      A
home town
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Verse 2
A
My mama was one damn hard workin 
woman
    D                              
she tried to raise us kids without 
  A
a pa
    D                              
the last thing that she said she 
  A
was on her dying bed
    B7                           
was boy don't get in trouble with 
     E
the law
     A
Well whenever my time comes to meet 
my maker
D                              A
I'm going to try to do my very best
    D                  A
I'm going to stand and take it like 
a man
                 E               A
when they ask if I have one request

I'll say .....(repeat chorus)