Tablature muddy water - Johnny Rivers

          



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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 /

                       D

  I was home in Macon, Georgia

                     D7             G

  They kept my Daddy   in the Macon jail

                                  C

  He said, "Son, if you keep your hands clean, uh huh

  G                    D7                  G

  You won't hear those bloodhounds on your trail"

  

  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            A                       E

    I asked the jailer, said "When's my time up?"

               E7                     A

  He said "Son,  you know we won't forget

                                    D

  And if you try and just keep your hands clean, uh huh

      A                  E7              A

  Why we may just make a good man of you yet"

  

  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            Bb             F

    I washed my hands in muddy water

                     F7                     Bb

  I washed my hands,   but they didn't come clean

                              Eb

  I tried to do like my daddy told me, now

    Bb                  F7               Bb

  I must have washed my hands in a muddy stream

  

  (repeat last line twice)

  

   


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 Muddy water, de Johnny rivers 

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