Hand Me Down My Walkin' Cane
James A. Bland - 1880
Key: C

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File Created 08/19/2022
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        C                    C7
Hand me down my wallkin' cane
             G7              C   C7
Lord hand me down my walkin' cane
F
Hand me down my wallkin' cane
C
I'm a gonna leave on the morning train
                G7      C
All my sins are taken a-way.

     C                       C7
I gothigh, lord I got in jail
          G7                C   C7
Lord I gothigh, and I got injail
F                             C
I got high and I got in jail, had nobody for to go my bail
                G7      C
All my sins are taken a-way.

                    C                          C7
Well, the beans was tough, and the meat was fat
                 G7                     C  C7
Oh the beans was tough, and the meat wasfat
         F
Well the beans was tough, and the meat was fat
C
Oh good God, I couldn't eat that
                G7      C
All my sins are taken a-way.

                                    C7
Well it's come on Ma, and go my bail
             G7           C    C7
Lord come on Ma, and go my bail
F
Come on Mama and go my bail
C
Get me outta this Nashville jail
                G7      C
All my sins are taken a-way.

                          C7
Well if I die in Tennessee
          G7      C   C7
Lord if I die, in -see
    F
Boy if I die in Tennessee
C
Ship me back by C.O.D.,
                G7      C
All my sins are taken a-way.

                                  C7
So hand me down, my bottle a' corn
           G7                 C    C7
Oh hand me down that bottle a' corn
F
Hand me down my bottle a' corn
C
Gonna get drunk just sure as you're born
                G7      C
All my sins are taken a-way.

        C                    C7
Hand me down my wallkin' cane
             G7              C   C7
Lord hand me down my walkin' cane
F
Hand me down my wallkin' cane
C
I'm a gonna leave on the morning train
                G7      C
All my sins are taken a-way.

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                G7      C
All my sins are taken a-way.

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