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                  Oh!   Forty days     {echo}  Oh     40 days    {echo} I'm 
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         gonna see that she'll be back home in 40 days               I'm gonna 
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     show the whole world you did that, it'll be the very thing that'll send ya 
      A                   E                  A 
     I'm gonna see that she'll be back home in 40 days. 
 
     A 
               {guitar solo} 
 
     D                                      A 
     {guitar solo} 

     E                   D                  A 
     {guitar solo} 

     A 
        I was a-talkin' to the judge in private early this morning,   and then 
     A                                      E 
            he took me to the sheriff, almost as a sign of warning.  They're 
     A                                      D 
      gonna throw cross charges agin ya that'll be the very thing that'll send ya 
     A                   E                  A 
     I'm gonna see that she'll be back home in forty days. 
     A 
         Oh!     40 days!       {echo}  Oh!      40 days!    {echo}    I'm gonna 
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     see that she'll be back home in forty days.                    I'm gonna 
     A                                      D 
     show the whole world you did that , it'll be the very thing that'll send ya 
     A                   E                  A 
     I'm gonna  see that she'll be back home in 40 days. 

     A 
           {piano solo} 
 
     D                                      A 
     {piano solo} 
 
     E                   D                  A 
     {piano solo} 
 
     A 
        Oh!      40 days      {echo}  Oh!    40 days    {echo}        I'm gonna 
     A                                      E 
                see that she'll be back home in forty days.         I'm gonna 
     A                                      D 
           throw a cross charge agin ya, that'll be the very thx that'll send ya, 
     A                   E                  A 
     I'm gonna see that she'll be back home in forty days.          {end}