Transfusion Blues

KEY: Bb / CAPO: 1 / PLAY: A VERSE: A Early one morning while making the rounds A E Took a transfusion and I shot my woman down E Went right home and I went to bed N/C Well I stuck that loving forty-four beneath my head VERSE: Got up next morning and I grabbed that gun Took a transfusion and away I run Made a good run but I run too slow They overtook me down in Juarez, Mexico VERSE: Laid in the hot joints taking the pill In walked a sheriff from Jericho Hill He said Willie Lee your name is not Jack Brown You're the dirty hack that shot your woman down VERSE: Said yes oh yes my name is Willie Lee If you got a warrent just read it to me Shot her down because she made me slow I thought I was her daddy but she had five more VERSE: When I was arrested I was dressed in black Put me on a train and they took me back Had no friends for to go my bail They slapped my dried-up carcass in that county jail VERSE: Into the courtroom my trial began Where I was handled by twelve honest men Just before the jury started out Well I saw that little judge commence to look about VERSE: In about five minutes in walked a man Holding the verdict in his right hand Verdict read in the first degree Well I hollered Lordy, Lordy have mercy on me VERSE: Judge me smiled as he picked up his pen Ninety-nine years in the San Quentin pen Ninety-nine years underneath that ground I can't forget the day I shot my woman down VERSE: A D Come all you gotta listen unto me B7 E A Lay off that liquor and let that transfusion be