Verse 1

I just bought me a greyhound ticket I’m gonna use it at 4 p m
So you can call your secret love and break the news to him
You thought your little romance was on the strict Q T
So if you want your freedom P.D.Q. Divorce me C.O.D.
Verse 2

I won’t be round to hear you cry
Well I’m Texas bound and bye and bye
You can reach me down in Dallas general delivery
So if you want your freedom P.D.Q. Divorce me C.O.D.
riff C D G C D F D C A D G C

Verse 3

There’s gonna come a day gal when you’ll be feeling blue
You’ll find that you can’t pay your bills with a little I.O.U.
This dynamite your fooling with may be T.N.T.
So if you want your freedom P.D.Q. Divorce me C.O.D.
Verse 4

No need to fall down on your knees
‘Cause I know all my A.B.C.’s
Well I ain’t no college professor ain’t got no P.H.D.
So if you want your freedom P.D.Q. Divorce me C.O.D.

Verse 1

Come listen you fellows so young and so fine
And seek not your fortune in a dark dreary mine
It’ll form as a habit an seep in your soul
Till the stream of your blood is as black as the coal

Chorus 1

It’s dark as a dungeon an damp as the dew
Where troubles are doubled and pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls And the sun never shines
Its dark as a dungeon way down in the mine

riff A D A

Verse 2

Well I hope when I’m gone and the ages shall roll
My body will blacken and turn into coal
Then I’ll look from the door of my heavenly home
And pity the miners digging my bones

Verse 3

The midnight the morning or the middle of day
Is the same to the miner who labors away.
Where the demons of death often come by surprise,
One fall of the slate and you’re buried alive.

Chorus 2

Its dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew
Where danger is doubled and pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls And the sun never shines
Its dark as a dungeon way down in the mine

Verse 1

( No Chord ) G C G
There’s a long line of mourners driving down our little street
Their fancy cars are such a sight to see
They’re all your rich friends who knew you in the city
And now they’ve finally brought you home to me

Verse 2

When you left you know you told me some day you’d be returnin’
In a fancy car for all the town to see
Now everyone is watching you finally got your dream
And you’re ridin’ in a long black limousine

Chorus

The papers told of how you lost your life
The party and the fatal crash that night
The race upon the highway the curve you didn’t see
And now you’re in that long black limousine

riff G C G D G G7

Verse 3

Through tear filled eyes I watch as you ride by
A chauffeur at the wheel dressed up so fine
I’ll never love another
My heart and all my dreams
Are with you in that long black limousine

Verse 1

Standin’ in the jailhouse
A wishin’ I was free (laugh)
I’d like to get out
(no chord)
But I ain’t got a key
I got them lonesome jail house blues

Verse 2

A waitin’ for a train that’ll take me away
And I’ll be gone for many a day
I got them lonesome jail house blues

Verse 3

A standin’ in the jail house lookin’ at the street
This jail floor is hurtin’ my feet
I got them lonesome jailhouse blues

Verse 4

A watchin’ my friends as they go by
They’d get me out if a they would try
I got them lonesome jailhouse blues

riff G C G D G G7 C G D G

Verse 5

A lookin’ down a lonesome railroad line
Thinkin’ of a girl that I left behind
I got them lonesome jail house blues
The jury said I’d a have to go
When they sent me here without a show
I got them lonesome jail house blues

Outro

So goodbye friends I’m a leavin’ today
The Pullman’s trains gonna take me away
I got them lonesome jail house blues
The govenors fare don’t worry me
It’s the way I feel that a makes me sing
I got them lonesome jail house blues