Verse 1 
 
A 
Well that judge he found me guilty of wrong doing 
   D                           A 
he sentenced me to hang in mid-july 
A 
He look down at me and said you are a ruin 
B7                                     E 
If I were you I'd break right down and cry 
    A 
But nobody seems to care that I ain't guilty 
  D                                   A 
I never did the things they said I've done 
A 
But it looks like they're gonna to hang somebody 
         E                               A 
and it's lookin like I'm goin to be the one 

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A         D                      A 
(So just) send my body home on a freight train 
    D                                A 
and don't worry none that I don't go first class 
D                      A 
Send my body home on a freight train 
B7                            E 
So everyone can see me when I pass 
          D                         A 
and don't worry none about no fancy funeral 
D                               A 
it don't matter how they lay me down 
D                       A 
see they bury me out by mama's apple tree 
                      E               A 
and just send my body back to my home town
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Verse 2 
A 
My mama was one damn hard workin woman 
    D                                A 
she tried to raise us kids without a pa 
    D                                A 
the last thing that she said she was on her dying bed 
    B7                                E 
was boy don't get in trouble with the law 
     A 
Well whenever my time comes to meet my maker 
D                              A 
I'm going to try to do my very best 
    D                  A 
I'm going to stand and take it like a man 
                 E               A 
when they ask if I have one request 
 
I'll say .....(repeat chorus)