Mississippi chords by The Secret Sisters

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
A minorAm G+G D MajorD A minorAm

Verse 1:
A minorAm              G+G
All my life I'd never been a lucky man
          D MajorD
Saw the back of my daddy's hand
            A minorAm
Lost your momma to the promised land

Verse 2:
A minorAm             G+G
In my time I'd never had a thing that's mine
           D MajorD
Till they handed me a baby fine
     A minorAm
My little girl

Bridge 1:
A minorAm        G+G
There're only two things I know
DmDm          A minorAm
 I get ugly when the whiskey flows
DmDm          A minorAm
Wanted you to know I love you so
E MajorE
And I would kill before I let you go

Chorus:
A minorAm
Taking off for Mississippi
G+G
Wearing someone else's name
D MajorD
Brought you in this world and I
  E MajorE        G+G    A minorAm
can take you from it just the same
A minorAm
If you leave for Mississippi
G+G
I will beat you at your game
D MajorD
Brought you in this world and I
  E MajorE        G+G    A minorAm
can take you from it just the same

Break:
A minorAm G+G D MajorD A minorAm

Verse 3:
A minorAm
My dear one
            G+G
Heard your whispering your plans to run
         D MajorD
Off to marry some rich man's son
            A minorAm
I bet he's never met a poor man's gun

Bridge 2:
A minorAm         G+G
In the darkness you could not see
DmDm        A minorAm
The drunken devil instructed me
DmDm        A minorAm
Two bullets in a crimson sea
E MajorE
Now I'm certain that you'll never be

Chorus:
A minorAm
Taking off for Mississippi
G+G
Wearing someone else's name
D MajorD
Brought you in this world and I
  E MajorE        G+G    A minorAm
can take you from it just the same
A minorAm
If you leave for Mississippi
G+G
I will beat you at your game
D MajorD
Brought you in this world and I
  E MajorE        G+G    A minorAm
can take you from it just the same
?
Break:
A minorAm G+G D MajorD A minorAm A minorAm G+G D MajorD E MajorE G+G A minorAm

Verse 4:
A minorAm
Grief and sin
            G+G
When the righteousness of you sets in
          D MajorD
And the blood in my veins begins
     A minorAm
to ramble on

Verse 5:
A minorAm
Now I know we can
          G+G
stand and judge the execution man
             D MajorD
But we all have to make a trembling stand
      A minorAm
before the sun
A minorAm G+G C majorC
Maple tree
     A minorAm    G+G   C majorC  E MajorE
Can your branches carry me
      A minorAm       G+G
Before the war, before the wine
     DmDm         A minorAm
Before I stole what wasn't mine
    F/CF/C   E MajorE      A minorAm G+G D MajorD A minorAm