Capo 3 
 
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 Well I know that I shouldn't have done it I Know it just 
          G                                   Bm           wasn't right.They got me backed up to the cotton mouth  
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river and I can't see late at night. 
 
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Chrous....You know there's lot's of stories told about  
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 the cotton mouth river they tell them time and again  
 
about  
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never were heard from again.. 
 
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If I had all my live to live over I wouldn't have gone to   D             G                              Bm           work that day.Instead of going into town and shooting  
him 
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down for a thing I never heard him say(Chrous) 
 
G                             Bm             C        D     I just made it through the cane break and I got one foot 
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in the mud.I can hear the dogs obeying and the snakes                         C             D            
around my ankles telling me my running days are  
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done(Chrous)