yodel C F C G7 C

Well he put me off in Texas a place I dearly love
The wide open spaces all around me the moon and stars above
Nobody seems to want me nor to lend me a helping hand
I’m on my way from Frisco heading back to Dixie Land
My pocketbook is empty my heart is willed with pain
I’m a thousand miles away from home just waiting for a train

yodel C F C G7 C

Key of E

INTRO: E
(–no music–) E
You take this hammer take it to the capt’
Hey take this hammer take it to the capt’
Take this hammer take it to the capt’
You can tell him I’m gone tell him I’m gone

Cause I ain’t gonna take no more kicks and whippin’s
No I ain’t gonna take no kicks and whippin’s
I ain’t gonna take no more no more of his kick’s and his whippin’s
You can tell him I’m gone, gone, gone you can tell him I’m gone

Captain call me a hard-headed devil
Well the captain call me a hard-headed devil
Well the Captain call me a hard-headed devil
And that ain’t my name that ain’t my name

Well the captain got a big gun about a ninety-nine caliber (wooooo)
Capt’ got a big gun about a ninety-nine caliber
Well the captain got a big gun about a ninety-nine caliber
He gonna shoot me down if he ever catches me gonna shoot me down

But you can tell him that I went where the gray goose goes
Tell him that I’m gone where the gray goose goes
Tell him I’m gone where the gray goose goes
Tell him I’m gone but tell him I’m gone just tell him I’m gone

Take this hammer take it to the capt’
Take this hammer take it to the capt’
(fade…………………)