Send My Body lyrics and chords

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Send My Body
Written and recorded by Randy Travis
 
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Well the judge he found me guilty of wrong doing
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And he sentenced me to hang in mid-July

He looked down at me and said your life's a ruin
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If I were you I'd break right down and cry
   
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But nobody seems to care that I ain't guilty
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Lord I never did the things they said I've done

But I guess they're gonna have to hang somebody
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And it's looking like I'm gonna be the one

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So send my body home on a freight train
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And don't worry none that I don't go first class
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Send my body home on a freight train 
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So everyone can see me when I pass

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Don't worry none about no fancy funeral 
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It don't matter how they lay me down
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You see they bury me out by momma's apple tree
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And send my body back to my home town
 

My momma was a damn hard workin’ woman 
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And she tried to raise us kids without a pa
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Last thing that she said she was on her dying bed
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Was son don't get in trouble with the law

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Whenever my time comes to meet my maker 
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I'm gonna try to do my very best
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I'm gonna try to stand and take it like a man 
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When they ask if I have one request

Repeat #3,4

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Yeah see they bury me out by momma's apple tree
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And send my body back to my home town

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