Cincinnati Jail
Recorded by Bobby Bare
Written by Mel Tillis
Album: (Margie's At) The Lincoln Park Inn (1969)
Tabbed by Larry Mofle
10/1/21


Chorus:
G    Em        D       C          A
It's cold as a well in Cincinnati jail
D             G     C             D
I ain't got nobody, I ain't got nobody


G              C          D        G                    D
Shouldn't have drunk that wine, it messed up my country mind
    G                  C                 A        D
But I didn't know that pretty gal wasn't free not free
    G       C          D       G                D
And someone called the law and I had a southern drawl
    C                     D                   G
The first one they locked up you're right was me

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I heard a lot about that great midwestern town
So I thought I'd better go and look around look around
Couldn't find me no job and my kind just don't rob
But they don't want no southern bums around

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Lord an Appalachian boy ain't never known much joy
But I was better off in my Blueridge Mountain home sweet home
I could see the light of day I could while the time away
On the mornin' the government gave me to live on

Chorus