Woody Guthrie - Bad Lee Brown Cocaine Blues Ukulele

Tune down one 1/2 step...

Intro:
                             hold bend    hold
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eb||----5---5---5---5----5-----------------------------|
bb||----5---5---5---5----5--4b5-5r4p2----4b5 5r4p2-----|
Gb||----6---6---6---6----6-----------4------------4----|  etc.
Db||----7---7---7---7----7-----------------------------|
Ab||----7-------7---7----7-----------------------------|
Eb||--5-------5---5-----5------------------------------|

(Chord names reflect standard tuning)

Fast strumming...

C  
It was late last night I made my rounds;
  F                             C
I met my woman and I blowed her down.
       F                     C
I went on home and I went to bed.
  G                           C
I laid my pistol up under my head.

C
Early next morning, by the rising sun,
  F                        C
I woke up and a started to run.
  F                        C
I made a run but I run too slow;
   G                           C
A man overtook me down in Jericho.

C
I was standing on the corner reading my daddy's will
F                                        C
'Long came a man they call him Bad Texas Bill.
    F                                      C
He said, "Uhh, Captain, is your name Lee Brown?
  G                                             C
I believe that you the rascal blowed yer woman down."

C
I said, "Yes sir, Captain, my name is Lee.
            F                             C
And if you got any blues, boy sing 'em to me."
      F                               C 
"Well I guess Lee, that you know the best
           G                                         C
You better come with me the judge will tell you the rest."

(play intro licks on break)

C
When I was arrested, I was dressed in black.
F                                    C
Put me on a train and they brung me back.
  F                                   C
Jury found me guilty in the first degree
     G                                  C
And they laid me down in the penitentiary.

(intro licks again)

C
Yes the judge found me guilty an' the jury too.
   F                                       C
I cried "Lord in Heaven, have some mercy on me!"
     F                           C
I'll be here fer the rest of my life,
G                       C
All I done was kill my wife.