Intro 
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[Verso 1]
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When we left, it was cold 
             A               D 
Each other's hands we had to hold 
       A             D 
We got drunk in Tennessee 
        A                D 
She was just as drunk as me 
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She run up the hill, she cried and cried 
G     F#m      E     A 
I run down the other side 

 
[Refrão]

   D            A 
Oh-oh-oh, sweet Lucy 
   D            A 
Oh-oh-oh, sweet Lucy 
   D      D6    A            D    D 
Oh-oh-oh, sweet Lucy let me go 

 
[Verso 2]

       A                  D 
Police come, they took my wine 
               A                    D 
They put us in jail, hundred dollar fine 
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I could hear her, crying over the wall 
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In the women's detention hall 
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I got on the phone, my mama spoke 
G       F#m           E      A 
"Sorry, Son, but your mama's broke" 


[Refrão]

   D            A 
Oh-oh-oh, sweet Lucy 
   D            A 
Oh-oh-oh, sweet Lucy 
   D      D6    A           D  D 
Oh-oh-oh, sweet Lucy let me go 


 
[Verso 3]

            A         D 
Where'ere I go, I get sad 
           A                   D 
Seems like sorrow lives in the air 
       A                      D 
In the wide-open skies of California 
          A              D 
There was sorrow way out there 
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Five get your ten that you don't get past 
G       F#m                E         A 
Five get your ten that you better go fast 


[Refrão]

   D            A 
Oh-oh-oh, sweet Lucy 
   D            A 
Oh-oh-oh, sweet Lucy 
   D      D6    A           D 
Oh-oh-oh, sweet Lucy let me go 

Instrumental 
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[Verso 4]

         A                    D 
Oh Harry Hubcaps and Jack the Fluke 
              A                    D 
They bought a bottle, a bottle for Luke 
         A                    D 
They was buddies, they had a fight 
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They broke the jukebox, they broke the light 
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Big old Fluke, weigh three hundred pounds 
G       F#m        E          A 
Fell on Harry when Harry fell down 


[Refrão]

   D            A 
Oh-oh-oh, sweet Lucy 
   D            A 
Oh-oh-oh, sweet Lucy 
   D      D6    A           D  D 
Oh-oh-oh, sweet Lucy let me go 


[Verso 5]

        A                     D 
My old lady says, "Gimme that wine" 
         A                        D 
I says, "Honey, quit drinking sometime" 
           A                  D 
She says, "Snock, it's not my fault! 
               A                  D 
Had to eat my porkchop without no salt" 
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She run up the hill, she cried and cried 
G     F#m      E     A 
I run down the other side 

 

[Refrão]
   D            A 
Oh-oh-oh, sweet Lucy 
   D            A 
Oh-oh-oh, sweet Lucy 
   D      D6    A           D 
Oh-oh-oh, sweet Lucy let me go 

 
   D            A 
Oh-oh-oh, sweet Lucy 
   D            A 
Oh-oh-oh, sweet Lucy 
   D      D6    A           D 
Oh-oh-oh, sweet Lucy let me go