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Lay Me Down In Old Kentucky by Josh Rister


           Lay Me Down In Old Kentucky



Tuning:E A D G B E
Key:G
Capo:5th fret

[Intro]
D G D C G D
 
 
[Verse]
D
There’s some trains just ain’t worth riding
         G                                        D
But you don’t know till you’re half way down the line
 
And there’s some bullets just ain’t worth bitin’
        C                 G                D
Layin’ back is a better plan, I’ve come to find
 
 
[Chorus]
 
So lay me down in old Kentucky
      G                                  D
In a paupers field, with a rock above my head
 
Mark it with my initials
      C             G               D
Then go and tell my woman that I’m dead
 
 
(Second Verse)
 
I see red, it blurs my vision
          G                          D
I feel a deep and aching pain in my chest
 
Made my money and my own fate
      C            G                 D
One mistake and a bullet’s done the rest
 
 
[Chorus]
 
 
Tell her I hope to see her
        G                            D
But the odds are slim that I’ll see paradise
 
If she goes and starts to crying
       C              G                     D
Don’t let them tears cloud her deep, blue eyes
 
 
[Chorus]
        C               G              D
You can go and tell my woman that I’m dead




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