Artist: | Mel Tillis (English) |
User: | rlcsinger |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Comment: | - |
Sawmill
Recorded by Mel Tillis
Written by Horace Whatley and Mel Tillis
Key Bb 34-140
G C
Well once I was a slave at the sawmill
G
Talk about a poor boy talk about a poor boy
C G
Never saw a dollar bill
C
My work was so hard at the sawmill
G
Think about a poor boy think about a poor boy
C G
When you go to write your will
C
Well see my teardrops falling down
My wife left this sawmill town
D7
She said the sawmill life had been a sin
Cause the gravy was too thin
G C
I can't work no more at the sawmill
G
Mercy on a poor boy mercy on a poor boy
C G
Let me have a dollar bill
C
If you bring your wife to the sawmill
G
Well how you gonna please her how you gonna please her
C G
When she wants a dollar bill
C
They're not satisfied at the sawmill
G
Women like a dollar women like a dollar
C G
Yes and women always will
C
Well see my teardrops falling down
My wife left this sawmill town
D7
She said the sawmill life had been a sin
Cause the gravy was too thin
G C
I can't work no more at the sawmill
G
Mercy on a poor boy mercy on a poor boy
C G
Let me have a dollar bill
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Mercy on a poor boy mercy on a poor boy
C G
Let me have a dollar bill