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44 Gun

Lonesome Ace Stringband
ChordsKeyGbeginner

Chords in this song2

Intro

     

Chorus

Don’t you remember on that rocky mountainside
When we lay down to rest
You promised you’d be my blue-eyed boy
While the sun sank in the west

Instrumental

     

Verse 1

Now, hand me down my old grey hat
It’s a-hanging there on a nail
Before this time tomorrow morn
I’ll be gone on that long, long trail

Chorus

Don’t you remember on that rocky mountainside
When we lay down to rest
You promised to be my blue-eyed boy
While the sun sank in the west

Instrumental

     

Verse 2

Now if you see me standing on my porch
With a 44 in my hand
Go tell them all that I’ve killed myself
‘Cause you’ve gone to some foreign land

Chorus

Don’t you remember on that rocky mountainside
When we lay down to rest
You promised you’d be my blue-eyed boy
While the sun sank in the west

Instrumental

     

Verse 3

I wish to the lord I’d never been born
Or died when I was young
I’d never have seen those two blue eyes
Or heard your lying tongue

Chorus

Don’t you remember on that rocky mountainside
When we lay down to rest
You promised you’d be my blue-eyed boy
While the sun sank in the west

Instrumental

     

Verse 4

I never will listen what another man says
Let his hair be black or brown
Unless he’s on some scaffold high
Saying “Darling, I wish to come down.”

Chorus

Don’t you remember on that rocky mountainside
When we lay down to rest
You promised you’d be my blue-eyed boy
While the sun sank in the west

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These need nothing beyond D, C.