Worried Man Blues

Notation: traditional
PDF Files: American

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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush  
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Chorus:
It takes a worried man to sing a worried song.
It takes a worried man to sing a worried song.
It takes a worried man to sing a worried song.
I'm worried now but I won't be worried long.

I went across the river and I lay down to sleep. (3x)
When I woke up, had shackles on my feet.
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Twenty nine links of chain around my leg. (3x)
And on each link, an initial of my name.
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I asked that judge, tell me, what's gonna be my fine. (3x)
Twenty one years on the R.C. Mountain line.
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Twenty one years to pay for my awful crime. (3x)
Twenty one years, but I still got ninety-nine.
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The train, it arrived, twenty-one coaches long. (3x)
The girl I love, she's on that train and gone.
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I looked down the track, as far as l could see, (3x)
A little bitty hand, was waving back at me.
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If anyone should ask you, who made up this song, (3x)
Tell 'em it was me. and I sing it all day long.
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