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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 21:54:51 -0700 From: Collins Crapo <roxtar@srv.net> Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature,alt.guitar.tab MUDDY WATER songwriting credits unavailable performed by Johnny Rivers tab transcribed by Collins Crapo <roxtar@srv.net> G / / / 2 /
I was home in Macon, DGeorgia They kept my Daddy D7 in the Macon Gjail He said, "Son, if you keep Cyour hands clean, uh huh GYou won't hear those D7bloodhounds on your Gtrail"
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:
E7 I asked the Ajailer, said "When'Es my time up'" He said "E7;Son, you know we won'At forget And if you try and just keep your Dhands clean, uh huh Why Awe may just make a E7good man of you Ayet"
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)
F7 I washed my Bbhands in muddy Fwater I washed my hands, F7 but they didn't come Bbclean I tried to do like my daddy Ebtold me, now I Bbmust have washed my F7hands in a muddy Bbstream
(repeat last line twice)