Po Boy chords

Bukka White

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Verse 
G               C 
Poor boy he was traveling 
G               D 
The king of the road 
G               C 
Poor boy he got hungry, 
D                               G 
He didn't even have no where to go. 

Instrumental 
G C G D 
G C D G 

Verse 
G               C 
Poor boy says I hate for 
G                      D 
That evening sun going down, 
G                          C 
The curb, the rocks are my pillow 
        D                       G 
And the cold ground my sleeping place. 

Instrumental 
G C G D 
G C D G 

Verse 
G                           C 
Poor boy's mama come to see him, 
G                          D 
Frightened, sad and prison bound, 
G                   C 
When she looked and see him, 
D                             G 
How she went to screaming and crying. 

Instrumental 
G C G D 
G C D G 

Verse 
G                  C 
Take back your old mother, 
G                      D 
Poor boy now is prison bound, 
G                     C 
Oh she kneeled on her knee, 
D                          G 
How old mother screams and cries. 

Instrumental 
G C G D 
G C D G 

Verse 
G               C 
Oh she said goodbye, 
G                       D 
Your mama's gonna leave lone, 
G                         C 
She said if you be a good boy, 
D                       G 
You will be home by and by. 
    	

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