Standard (EADGBE)

Empty beer bottles rattle on my pistol

On the seat of my Chevy pickup truck

I'm taking these gravel roads

fast as my truck will go

 I'm running like a scared white tail buck

 It was an all night card game with Earl Ray and Bobby

 And some old boy they work with from Adair

That boy didn't like me then he said I was cheating

 gunshots rang out on the midnight air

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 I don't want to see the daylight

But my Becky's alone tonight

 I wonder if she's waiting up for me

I’m gonna hide out in the bottoms

Where I hunted deer and turkeys

I know that swamp like the back of my hand

Hell I was born and raised here

Just wanted to be a good old boy

never thought I'd ever be a wanted man

Well soon they're gonna catch me,

Ain't no way around that

Cause I don't know any other place to hide

I wonder if Becky's bible is still in the glove box

Cause I'm sure gonna need it if that boy dies

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Sometime tomorrow morning

When I ought to be fishing

They'll probably be hauling me in

I'll be sitting in the jail house

no need to be wishing

That I'll ever get to fish the Green river again

 I'll be praying for some daylight

While my Becky's alone at night

 I wonder if she's waiting up for me

 I wonder if she's waiting up for me