Out Of Jail chords by Waylon Jennings

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Verse 1:
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    I sat at a bar having a beer
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    Tryin' to hold down the stool

    When a stranger walked in - stood there beside me
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    And plopped down there like a fool

    He started drinkin' then he started talkin'
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    About things that were wrong in his life
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    The more that i heard the more i believed
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    The thing that was wrong was his wife

Verse 2:
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    You talk about beauty,when we first met
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    She was all a man could desire

    Talk about love,one night with her
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    Would set your very soul on fire

    But loves little flame is out of control
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    About three feet high from behind
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    Ever since we've been married,well i've come to believe
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    That love's for the dumb and the blind

Verse 3:
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    'Cause you talk about ugly,when she gets mad
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    She goes from Jekill to Hyde

    She grits her teeth and her eyes roll back
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    And pivot from side to side

    She completely rewrites the whole English language
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    Descriptive,four-lettered and loud
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    Now i can't out think her,but i can sure out drink her
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    And that's what i'm doing here now

Verse 4:
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    I've spent seven years with the wrong woman
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    Seven and going on eight
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    She spent seven years naggin' and eatin'
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    I'm overwrought and she's overweight
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    If i try leavin' she has me arrested
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    And takes her own sweet time gettin' me out
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    If she ain't number one,she's in the top two
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    Of things that i could live without

Verse 5:
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    Men commit murder and all kinds of mayhem
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    In a few years they're back on the streets
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    Highway robbery and white collar crime
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    And they laugh at the system they beat
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    Sometimes i'm tempted - sometimes i'm ashamed
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    Of the things that the law will allow
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    I could have killed her when i first met her
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    And i'd have been out of jail by now


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    I could have killed her when we first met
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    And i've have been out of jail by now