[Start]
[Verse]
D A Am G D Am
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G
Hear my story and listen well
[Chorus]
D Am
Truth is in all that I tell
G D Am
It could never have been me
G
I did not shoot no deputy
D
Mr Grant the deputy
[Inst]
C G Bm F D F D C
■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
[Verse]
G
Friend to my whole family
F D C G
He always ■ tell me when John Brown
F
Was getting ready to ■ come around
D G
Don't blame ■ me
[Chorus]
G
Don't blame me
A A7 D Em7 Em
I hide it all except a few seeds
G Gbm
And make him think I plant for me
Em D C G F D
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[Solo]
C Bm F
■ ■ ■
[Verse]
D C G F
When Mr Grant and I know all the while ■
D C
We've got enough for the whole island
C
Three years now we sell it in town
D F
Under the bucket that goes down
D G A
No one knew ■ of it but three:
[Chorus]
A
Mr Grant Davis and me
D Em
Don't blame me
G
Don't blame me
[Solo]
Em D C F D C Bm F
I swear by ■ ■ ■ God it is a plot
D C
Davis sent me here to rot
G F D C G F
■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
D D7 Bb F
Listen people can't you ■ ■ see
[Chorus]
G D
Mr Davis shot the deputy
F
Don't blame me
D
Don't blame me
F
Don't blame me
D
Don't blame me ■
[Outro]