When Uncle Bill Quit Dope chords by Johnny Cash

Verse:

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Well Uncle Bill was my Mothers Brother,
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A tall lanky man
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But somewhere back in Uncle Bill's life, he took to sniffing cocaine.

I'd find him out in the back yard,
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sitting against a tree.
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His eyes bugged out in a cocaine stare,
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and his mind in a cocaine dream.
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Well one fall day when Uncle Bill was
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having a cocaine fit,
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He said Louise this dope's no good
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and I've made up my mind to quit.

Now you take this key and I'll go upstairs and
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then you lock the door,
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and Lord I swear I'll stay up there,
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till I don't want dope no more.



Chorus:

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Well he stomped the floor and he beat the door and he moaned a mournful cry.
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When the last cocaine went through his brain we thought he'd surely die.
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He yelled and he cussed and he fell on the floor and we almost gave up hope
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