Capo: 6

JOHN WILKES BOOTH (Mary Chapin Carpenter) Capo 6

^GJohn Wilkes Booth was a southern ^Cman, ^EmBorn of an actor in Maryla^Dnd, ^GBound for fortune on a gas-lit ^Cstage, ^EmBound to die at a ^Dtender^G age.

Washington to Baltimore, He played the bills and he slept with whores, And he burned inside with a hatred deep For the man who caused the south to weep. Young Abe Lincoln wasn't young no more, Tired old man when he won the war, And he dreamed at night of his death by the hand Of a bitter world and a faceless man

^CAnd he saw his body in a ^Dghastly dr^Emeam, ^CDraped in black while his ^Emwidow sc^Dreamed. ^CTwo silver dollars on his^D eyelids ^Emlay. ^GAbraham Linco^Cln has died toda^Dy. ^G

CHORUS: ^CThey said there were five and ^Dthey said there were ^Emten. Some say t^Ghere was never more than ^Cjust one ma^Dn. ^CWho would smile to see M^Dr. Lincoln ^Emdead In the na^Gme of God an^Emd Dixie, ^Am ^GIn the name of God and Dixie Land. ^Em ^D ^G

John Wilkes Booth and his band of men They'd failed before but would try again. When Good Friday dawned with a fickle sun, Then Booth declared the day had come. The word was passed and the guns were brought, Down to Mary Sarrat's boarding house. Sealed in a note, Booth named just four, But the gallows would sway with many more. CHORUS John Wilkes Booth went to his grave With a bullet in his neck and a broken leg, A patriot and his fantasy Of redemption, grace, and bravery. And those who hanged and those who spent Their lives behind a jailer's fence, Only Booth could have set them free From the taint of the conspiracy. CHORUS In the name of God and Dixie In the name of God and Dixie land

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