Sammy Walker - Testimony Of A Dying Lady Chords

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Your honor sir, I'm dying, that's the reason that I'm here 
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The cancer's got my body, I'll be dead within a year 
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I'll be dead within a year
 
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Tell me more good lady, don't leave out a single word 
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For I'll come to my decision from the testimony heard
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From the testimony heard

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My husband passed away no more than a year ago
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But every penny that he left me to the banker we did owe
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To the banker we did owe 

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When I first was feelin' ill, they said I'd be okay 
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But they'd need to run some tests and take a simple X-ray
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Just a simple X-ray

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Again and again they called me, for more tests they'd need to run 
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And to exterminate the cancer with their radiation gun 
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With their radiation gun

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But I never got no better as I'm standing here today 
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And they left me with this statement that I can't afford to pay 
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That I can't afford to pay

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Well what about your jewellery and your lovely house and home?
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Could you not have made a sacrifice, to step down from your throne?
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To step down from your throne

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Sir, I never had the fancy things that you and yours have known
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And we never owned the shackled house I used to call my home
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I used to call my home

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Well I'm sorry for your trouble, and I'm sorry that you're ill
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But it's my duty to uphold the law, an' uphold the law I will
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Uphold the law I will

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For your failure to meet the judgement of this court and pay the fee
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I sentence you to twelve months in the penitentiary
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In the penitentiary

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In this system of justice, of opportunity, and grief
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It's one thing to make a living, another to be a thief
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Another to be a thief