Verse 

     D                     C  G  D                
When I was just a kid back in Abeline, I 
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had to use a gun, well for my own Sake,  I 
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shot a man down when I was just eighteen, and 
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from that day they call me Shaky Jake 


[Refrão]

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Shaky Jake, boy, what you gonna do? 
D                    C G   D 
Texas Rangers coming after you 
D                            C   G  D  
Here's the price you pay for one mistake, so 
D                         C  G  D 
get off the streets, it's Shaky Jake. 

Verso 2 

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Ma says I was born under bad sign 
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I was lookin' for the chance to make or break,  I 
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cut my teeth on a brandin' iron,  I'm the 
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devil's own son, I'm Shaky Jake. 


[Refrão]

 
D                      C     G  D 
Shaky Jake, boy, what you gonna do? 
D.                   C G   D 
Texas Rangers coming after you 
D                            C   G  D 
Here's the price you pay for one mistake, so 
D                         C  G  D 
get off the streets, it's Shaky Jake. 

Bridge 

C                D 
   I keep on the run now 
C               D  
    I travel by night 
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    I don't need anyone 
C                                            D               A 
    But someone, one day, somewhere's. gonna see me right. 

Verso 3 

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Dig a hole about six foot deep 
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Pray the Lord my soul to take, I 
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don't want flowers and nobody's gonna weep 
D                      C  G  D 
Here lies that outlaw, Shaky Jake. 


[Refrão]
 
   D                         C  G  D 
Oh Shaky Jake, boy, what you gonna do? 
D                    C G   D 
Texas Rangers coming after you 
D                            C   G  D 
Here's the price you pay for one mistake, so 
D                         C  G  D 
get off the streets, it's Shaky Jake. 

Interlude 

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Shaky Jake 
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Shaky Jake 
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Shaky Jake 
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Shaky Jake 
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Shaky Jake 
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Shaky Jake. 


[Refrão]
 
   D                         C  G  D 
Oh Shaky Jake, boy, what you gonna do? 
D                    C  G  D 
Texas Rangers coming after you 
D                            C   G D 
Here's the price you pay for one mistake 
   D                         C   G  D 
So get off the streets, it's Shaky Jake.