Muddy Water Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

 I Dwas home in Macon, Georgia

 ThD7ey kept my Daddy G in the Macon jail

 HeC said, "Son, if you keep your hands clean, uh huh

 YoGu won't hear those blooD7dhounds on your trail"G

Verse 2

I fell in with bad companions

I robbed a man up in Tennessee

And I got caught way up in Nashville, uh huh now

And they locked me up and threw away the key

Chorus

same pattern as above 2 verses):

I washed my hands in muddy water

I washed my hands, but they didn't come clean

I tried to do like my daddy told me, now

I must have washed my hands in a muddy stream

Verse 3

  E7I asked the jailAer, said "When's my time uEp?"

 HeE7 said "Son, you know we Awon't forget

 AnDd if you try and just keep your hands clean, uh huh

 WhAy we may just make a E7good man of you yeAt"

Verse 4

But I didn't wait to get my time in

I broke down, broke out the Nashville jail

I just crossed Atlanta, Georgia, oh now

And I can hear those bloodhounds on my trail

(chorus; same pattern as above 2 verses)

  F7I washed my handA♯s in muddy water F

 I F7washed my hands, but thA♯ey didn't come clean

 I D♯tried to do like my daddy told me, now

 I A♯must have washed my haF7nds in a muddy streA♯am