Cedartown Georgia

D A E E D A E I got a gal in Cedartown Georgia E D A E I used to have to walk nearly three miles to court her A D E A She never had much, just a sharecropper's daughter F# But I married her and took her down to New Orleans B N.C. B7 Got a little house in the South French Quarter (bass riff) E D A E Got a job hookin' bales, load em' on a steamboat E D A E I give her seven days pay, and the next day I'm broke A D E A When she ain't sleeping all day, she's a primpin' F# Every evening when the sun goes down B N.C. B7 She starts a swarmin' on 'Orlean town (bass riff) E D A E Walkin' into work this morning at daybreak E D A E I caught her with the tall lord dandy from New King Bay A D E A She walked right by and she looked right through me F# I made up my mind what I'm a gonna do B N.C. B7 Eased in a pawnshop and bought a twenty-two (bass riff) E D A E I watched as the room clerk gave them a room key E D A E Standing outside I could read room twenty-three A D E A Tonight I'll put her on a train for Georgia F# Gonna be a lotta kin folks squallin' and grievin' B N.C. E 'Cause that Cedartown gal ain't breathin' (bass riff) E D A E