Words and music Bob Dylan
Released on Self Portrait (1970)
Tabbed by Eyolf Østrem
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G
Went out last night just to take a little round.
F#
I met my little Sadie and I brought her down.
Ab
I ran right home and I went to bed
A
With a forty-four smokeless under my head.
A
I began to think what a deed I'd done.
I grabbed my hat and I began to run.
I made a god run but I ran too slow;
Bb
They overtook me down in Jericho
F
Standing on a corner I's ringin' my bell,
F#
Up stepped the sheriff from Thomasville.
G G#
He says 'Young man is your name Brown?
C#m
Remember you blowed Sadie down."
[from this point there is some kind of regular rhythm]
C#m
"Oh yes sir, my name is Lee.
G#m
I murdered little Sadie in the first degree.
F#m
First degree and second degree.
Bm F#
If you've got any papers will you serve them to me?"
D A
Well they took me down town and they dressed me in black,
G D
They put me on a train and they sent me back.
A
I had no one for to go my bail;
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They crammed me back into the county jail.
Oh, yes they did.
C
Now, the judge and the jury they took their stand.
F Fm
The judge had the papers in his right hand.
C Am
Forty-one days, forty-one nights;
F Fm
Forty-one years to wear the ball and the stripes;
Oh, no!
C Am
Went out last night to take a little round.
Em G7
I met little Sadie and I blowed her down.
C Em
I ran right home and I went to bed,
F Dm Fm C
A forty-four smokeless under my head.
(. . . except: who's the craziest: the one who recorded this, the moron who tabbed it, or you, who've actually came your way here to find it?)