F#m   E7(#9)
F#m Bm     C#m


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[Verse 1]
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Well now Jesse was a gambler. Night and day
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He used crooked cards and dice
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Son of a guy, good-hearted, but had no soul
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His heart was hard and cold like ice
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Now Jesse was a wild reckless gambler, but one game he could not win
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Sweet Lorena 'outta north atlanta She stole his heart from him
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And she was married to a rich man with a house on a hill
                         F#m
But Jesse had to see her still
                              C#m
So come the shadows of night. He came around
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And he cut the old man down
                          C#m
Broke his heart, left him cold out alone
      Bm           C#m     F#m
Sweet Lorena packed up and gone
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And the police walked up and shot my friend down
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He said "Boys, I gotta die today"
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He had eight crapshooters around his bedside
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To hear the words he had to say
               C#m                          F#m
"guess I 'otta know exactly hows I wanna to go" How you wanna go Jesse?


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[Verse 2]
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Eight crapshooter to be my pallbearers. Let 'em all be bailed down in black

I want nine men going to the graveyard, buddy But just eight men are coming back
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I want gamblers gathered around my coffin side,
          Bm           F#m
A crooked card upon my hearse
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Don't say the crapshooters
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Are allowed to grieve over me
E                     C#
That there doggone curse


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[Verse 3]
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16 real good crapshooters
   C#
16 bootlegger there to sing songs
Bm
16 hobos off the casey line
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To kick up dust while I'm rollin' along
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(All the hoes that I used to know from way before Kiss me from my head to my toes
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Give me paper and pen so I can write about my life of sin
                  C#          F#m
couple bottles of gin in case I don't get in
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His head was aching. His heart was thumpin
                C#m          F#m    E
Jesse went down bouncin' and jumpin'

He said,"folks don't be standin around moanin' and cryin"
         C#                             C#m
He wants everybody to do the charleston whilst he dies
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One foot up and a toenail draggin'
C#
Throw my buddy Jesse in the hoodoo wagon
Bm
Come here mama with your can of booze


[Chorus]


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Dyin' crapshooter's blues (help me)
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Dyin' crapshooter's blues (goin down)
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With the dyin' crapshooter's blues