Trudy (ft. Randy Houser)
Recorded by Jamey Johnson
Album: Sindle (2024)

(Non Capo)

(Intro.)
|(G) / / / |

(Chorus)
(G) Call up Trudy on the (C)telephone
(C) Send her a letter in the mail (G)
(G) And tell her I�fm hung up in (D)Dallas
(D) And they won�ft let me outta this (G)jail
If she asks you how I�fm (C)fairing
(C) Tell her I�fm just about to lose (G)my mind
(G) Worrying about old Johnny Lee (D)Walker
(D) And the girl I left behind (G)

(Verse)
(G) John Lee Walker was a car me-(C)chanic
(C) Had a hand for trouble and a eye for (G)cash
(G) The luckiest man in Dallas (D)County
(D) Had a gold watch chain and a black mus-(G)tache
And he loved his whiskey and he loved (C) his women
(C) Drove a big, long Cadillac limou-(G)sine
(G) Kept a big fancy townhouse in (D)Dallas
(D) And a hotel in New Or-(G)leans

(Verse)
(G)Kept a switchblade knife in his left hip (C)pocket
(C) And a .44 hog leg up under his (G) coat
(G) �gI�fll cut you down in a New York (D)minute�h
(D) If he catch you cheating, that was all she (G)wrote

(Chorus)
(G)So call up Trudy on the (C)telephone
(C) Send her a letter in the mail (G)
(G) And tell her I�fm hung up in (D)Dallas
(D) And they won�ft let me outta this (G)jail
If she asks you how I�fm (C)fairing
(C) Tell her I�fm just about to lose (G)my mind
(G) Worrying about old Johnny Lee (D)Walker
(D) And the girl I left behind (G)

(Verse)
I just got to town last Friday (C)evening
(C) I sure as hell didn�ft mean to (G)stay
(G) I was on my way back to Louisi-(D)ana
(D) Had a powerful thirst and six months (G)pay
Met a peroxide blonde in a bar on Deville
I was flying high and feeling mean
Poured down a bottle and a half a (D)red eye
(D) I dropped thirty-five dollars in the slot ma-(G)chine

(Verse)
And the boys in the back was a-dealing (C)seven cards
(C) I sat down and won me a hundred and (G)ten
Oh, I was raking in chips like Grant (D)took Richmond
(D) Till big Johnny Lee came a-strolling (G)in
And he lipped off the table like a 70-(C)7
(C) Pretty soon he done won all of my (G)bread
(G) I accused him of cheating, he reached for a (D)pistol
I grabbed a chair and I went upside of his head
Then I took off and running like a motor-(D)cycle
(D) I heard the bullets whining in the si-(G)rens wall
(G) But it took half the cups in Dallas (D)County
(D) Just to put one coon ass boy in (G)jail

(Chorus)
So call up Trudy on the (C)telephone
(C) Send her a letter in the mail (G)
(G) And tell her I�fm hung up in (D)Dallas
(D) And they won�ft let me outta this (G)jail
If she asks you how I�fm (C)fairing
(C) Tell her I�fm just about to lose (G)my mind
(G) Worrying about old Johnny Lee (D)Walker
(D) And the girl I left be-(G)hind

(Chorus)
Call up Trudy on the (C)telephone
(C) Send her a letter in the mail (G)
(G) And tell her I�fm hung up in (D)Dallas
(D) And they won�ft let me outta this (G)jail
(G) If she asks you how I�fm (C)fairing
(C) Tell her I�fm just about to lose (G)my mind
(G) Worrying about old Johnny Lee (D)Walker
(D) And the girl I left behind (G) - - - - -