Send My Body Chords
by Randy Travis
Send My Body by Randy Travis is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, A, C#7, F# and B7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
E
Well that judge he found me guilty of wrong doing
A E
And he sentenced me to hang in mid-July
E C#7
He looked down at me and said your life?s a ruin
F# B7
If I were you I'd break right down and cry
E
But nobody seems to care that I ain't guilty
A E
I never did the things they said I've done
E C#7
But I guess they're gonna have to hang somebody
F# B7 E
And it's lookin like I'm gonna be the one
A E
So send my body home on a freight train
A E
And don't worry none that I don't go first class
A E C#7
Send my body home on a freight train
F# B7
So everyone can see me when I pass
A E
And don't worry none about no fancy funeral
A E
Cause it don?t matter how they lay me down
A E C#7
Just see they bury me out by mama's apple tree
F# B7 E
And send my body back to my home town
Well, my mama was one damn hard workin woman
And she tried to raise us kids without a paw
The last thing that she said she was on her dying bed
Was son don't get in trouble with the law
Whenever my time comes to meet my maker
I'm going to try to do my very best
I'm going try to stand and take it like a man
When they ask if I have one request
Well I?ll just say
Chorus
Just see they bury me out by mama's apple tree
And send my body back to my home town