Drown

F C C C/B F G Am Am I was raised in the Sallisaw Hills F C Momma stayed at home and daddy worked the fields G We was always living just like the rest Am But back then it was only living at best Am I was 18, well I left home F C For a tent colony up in Colorado G Good pay for men mining up the coal Am At the end of the day we were just digging holes F C G Oh Roberta Jean I don't feel much like dancing F C G Wish to God you'd just leave me alone F C C C/B F Got the feeling that I don't need no one around G Am I'm gonna go to the river, I'm gonna lay my burdens down Am Then one night I was hanging with the gang F C Half-past ten and the messenger came G Daddy was a-calling from the panhandle line Am Telling me that my momma had died Am Two months later in the Ludlow camp F C The union ran deep and a strike was planned G Baby you know how these things end Am When a whisper is a shout and a handshake is a fist Oh Roberta Jean I don't feel much like dancing F C G Wish to God you'd just leave me alone F C C C/B F Got the feeling that I don't need no one around G Am I'm gonna go to the river, I'm gonna lay my burdens down G A put them into the ground Am Took a bullet in the arm and I was through with it F C The death special rolled in, I just split G Gambling up your life just to work it away Am Ain't worth the blood on your hands and the $2 pay Am I took the clothes on my back and I headed out East F C Working on the docks and reveling in the streets G Got mixed up with another man's wife Am Was on the killing end of a Colt .45 F C G Oh Roberta Jean I don't feel much like dancing F C G Wish to God you'd just leave me alone F C C C/B F Got the feeling that I don't need no one around G Am I'm gonna go to the river, I'm gonna lay my burdens down F C G Am 3x F C G So wash me as white as the snow F C G As pure as the lamb F C G Am Shroud me in the cloth, oh Lord F C G Am Take me as I am, oh as I am Fade out on Am