Chords with lyrics
🎸 Intro:
BB 
C majorC C C majorC
🎸 Verse 1:
C majorC C majorC
I went down to the county jail and turned myself in
C majorC
Spending all my weekends here, far from my good-timing friends
BB
Things just went from bad to worse but I don't know when
C majorC C majorC C majorC
The only thing I know for sure is I ain't going back again
🎸 Verse 2:
C majorC C majorC
They took me down to cellblock 
G+G after stripping off my clothes
C majorC
Put me in a monkey suit and threw me in the throes
BB
Like a rat in a maze, a cow in the herd ar a sparrow with a broken wing
C majorC C majorC C majorC
Now I know the reason why the caged bird has to sing
🎸 Chorus:
C majorC BB C majorC
Cause I'm just a weekender in the Davidson County Jail
C majorC BB C majorC
And my old man, he ain't got the cash to even Go my bail
C majorC C majorC BB
Should have listened to my mama and quit my life of sin
C majorC C majorC C majorC
Before I went backsliding again
🎸 Verse 3:
C majorC C majorC
This bed is hard and the room is cold and my cellmate's got a cough
C majorC
She takes her meds and sleeps all day got six more weeks til she's off
BB
She said she beat her boyfriend up while high on crack cocaine
C majorC C majorC C majorC
And now she sits and watches her young life Go down the drain
🎸 Chorus:
C majorC BB C majorC
Cause she's just a weekender in the Davidson County Jail
C majorC BB C majorC
Her old man ain't got the cash to even Go her bail
C majorC C majorC BB
She should have listened to her mama and quit her life of sin
C majorC C majorC C majorC
Before she went backsliding again
🎸 Solo:
(like the chorus)
C majorC C BB C majorC
C C majorC BB C majorC
C C majorC C BB
C majorC C C majorC C
🎸 Verse 4:
C majorC C majorC
Walk into some other room, they tried to make me eat
C majorC
Red-dyed gravy, cardboard bread and something that looked like meat
BB
One tough girl from cellblock C, picked a fight with the man at the desk
C majorC C majorC C majorC
Mighty soon was sent back to her room and I bet you know the rest
🎸 Chorus:
C majorC BB C majorC
Cause we're all just weekenders in the Davidson County Jail
C majorC BB C majorC
My old man ain't got the cash to even call my bail
C majorC C majorC BB
Should have listened to the good Lord, maybe quit my life of sin
C majorC C majorC C majorC
Before I went backsliding again
C majorC C majorC
Before I went backsliding again
Other versions of Weekender
Alternative guitar chords and tabs for Weekender by Margo Price
