Verse
B
Went out last night just to take a look around
A#
I met Little Sadie and I brought her down
C
I ran right home and I went to bed
C#
With a forty-four smokeless under my head
[Verse 2]
C#
I began to think of what a deed I done
C#
I grabbed my hat and I began to run
C#
I made a good run but I run too slow
D
They overtook me down to Jericho
[Verse 3]
A
Standing on the corner just a-ringing my bell
A#
Up stepped the sheriff from Thomasville
B C
He says, "Young man is your name Brown?
Fm
Remember you blowed little Sadie down?"
[Verse 4]
Fm
"Oh, yes sir my name is Lee
Cm
I murdered little Sadie in first degree"
A#m
"First degree, second degree
D#m A#
If you've got any papers, will you serve them to me?"
[Verse 5]
F# C#
Well, they took me down town and they dressed me in black
B F#
They put me on a train and they sent me back
C#
I had no one for to go my bail
B F#
They crammed me back into the county jail
(Oh, yes, they did)
[Verse 6]
E
Now, the judge and the jury, they took their stand
A Am
The judge had the papers in his right hand
E C#m
Forty-one days, forty-one nights
A Am
Forty-one years with the ball and stripes... oh, no!
[Verse 7]
E C#m
Went out last night to take a little round
G#m B7
I met my little Sadie and I blowed her down
E G#m
I ran right home and I went to bed
A F#m Am E
C# forty-four smokeless under ... my ... head