I'm Just Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail
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I'm Just Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail
recorded by the Everly Brothers
written by Karl Davis and Harty Taylor 

C
I'm not in your town to stay
 
Said a lady old and grey
   G7                        C
To the warden of the penitentiary
 
I'm not in your town to stay
 
And I'll soon be on my way
    G7                              C
I'm just here to get my baby out of jail
   F            G7                              C
Oh warden   I'm just here to get my baby out of jail
     
 
I tried to raise my baby right
 
I have prayed both day and night
        G7                                   C
That he wouldn't follow the footsteps of his dad
 
I have searched both far and wide
 
And I feared that he had died
       G7                           C
But at last I found my baby here in jail
   F          G7                           C
Oh warden  at last I found my baby here in jail
 
 
It was just five years today
 
When his daddy passed away
       G7                                 C
He was found beneath the snow so cold and white
 
Twas then I vowed to take his ring
 
And his gold watch and his chain
         G7                           C
Then the county laid his daddy in the grave
    F           G7                           C
Yes warden  the county laid his daddy in the grave
 
 
I will pawn you his watch
 
I will pawn you his chain
       G7                          C
I will pawn you my diamond wedding ring
 
I will wash all your clothes
 
I will scrub all your floors
        G7                      C
If that will get my baby out of jail  
    F          G7                           C
Yes Warden  if that will get my baby out of jail
 
 
Then I heard the warden say
 
To the lady old and grey
        G7                              C
I'll go bring your darling baby to your side
 
Two iron gates swang wide apart
 
She held her darling to her heart
    G7                               C
She kissed her baby boy and then she died
    F            G7                               C
But smiling  she kissed her baby boy and then she died
 
 
I'm not in your town to stay
 
Said a lady old and grey
    G7                              C
I'm just here to get my baby out of jail
    F           G7                              C
Yes warden  I'm just here to get my baby out of jail

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