{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1731637,"song":"A Week In A County Jail","artist":"Tom T. Hall","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11369839-a-week-in-a-county-jail-chords-by-tom-t-hall/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1731637?type=chord","rating":4.70344,"votes":30,"content":"[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nDoo do do  doo do do doo do oooh wooo[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]                   [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOne time I spent a week inside a little county jail[/tab]\r\n \r\n[tab]                  [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I don't guess I'll ever live it down[/tab]\r\n \r\n[tab]                   [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI was sitting at a red light when these two men came and got me[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                                      [ch]D7[/ch]\r\nAnd said that I was speeding through their town[/tab]\r\n\r\n \r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWell they said tomorrow morning you can see the judge then go[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                     [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThey let me call one person on the phone[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                 [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI thought I'd be there overnight so I just called my boss[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]                               [ch]D7[/ch]\r\nTo tell him I'd be off but not for long[/tab]\r\n\r\n \r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThey motioned me inside a cell with seven other guys[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                         [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd one little barred up window in the rear[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                     [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nMy cell mate said if they had let me bring some money in[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]                                 [ch]D7[/ch]\r\nWe ought to send the jailer for some beer[/tab]\r\n\r\n \r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWell I had to pay him double cause he was the man in charge[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                         [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd the jailer's job was not the best in town[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                  [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nLater on his wife brought hot baloney eggs and gravy[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                                 [ch]D7[/ch]\r\nThe first day I was there I turned it down[/tab]\r\n\r\n \r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                             [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNext morning they just let us sleep but I was up real early[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]               [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWondering when I'd get my release[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nLater on we got more hot baloney eggs n' gravy[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]                             [ch]D7[/ch]\r\nBy now I wasn't quite so hard to please[/tab]\r\n \r\n \r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTwo days later when I thought that I had been forgotten[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                    [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe sheriff came in chewing on a straw[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                     [ch]C[/ch]                           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe said where is the guy who thinks that this is Indianapolis[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                             [ch]D7[/ch]\r\nI'd like to talk to him about the law[/tab]\r\n\r\n \r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWell I told him who I was and told him I was working steady[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]                              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I really should be getting on my way[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                   [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThat part about me being who I was did not impress him [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]                                [ch]D7[/ch]\r\nHe said the judge would be here any day [/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe jailer had a wife and let me tell ya she was awful [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                         [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut she brought that hot baloney every day [/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd after seven days she got to looking so much better[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]                              [ch]D7[/ch]\r\nI asked her if she'd like to run away[/tab]\r\n \r\n \r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNext morning that ole judge took every nickel that I had[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                         [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd he said son let this teach you not to race[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                      [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe jailer's wife was smiling from the window as I left[/tab]\r\n \r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]D7[/ch]\r\nIn thirty minutes I was outta state [/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nDoo do do  doo do do doo do doo dooo[/tab]","plain_text":"","chords":["G","C","D7"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,1,3],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,1,2]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}