Good God Have Mercy chords

Roy Buchanan

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  			Intro  E7 

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   Down in South Carolina, in the piney woods 

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   Where they make sweet turpentine 

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   There I first saw the light of day 

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   Landin' on my mind 

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   Runnin' in the sunshine laughing 

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   Rollin' in the red dirt crying 

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   I said mmmm mmmm 

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   Good God have mercy 


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   Cannery warehouse baby, I went to school 

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   I eat lunch from the cans of our store 

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   Heatin' them up on a pot-bellied stove 

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   I used to keep out in the cold 

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   Sittin' around, you know, just tellin' lies about uh 

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   What I'd be when I grew old 

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   I said mmmm mmmm 

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   Good God have mercy 


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   Trestle track, now mama 

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   Where the BNN used to haul 

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   Freight train caught daddy one day 

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   He took a long, long fall 

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   I'd only been taught to think on life 

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   Never thought on death at all 

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   I said mmmm mmmm 

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   Good God have mercy 


Solo 


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   Now every Sunday after church 

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   There'd be a meeting on the ground 

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   Some good soul she would always say 

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   It's a shame about Frieda Brown 

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   Mama and the ladies they formed a society 

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   They run Frieda out of town 

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   I said mmmm mmmm 

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   Good God have mercy 


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   Daddy's on the main line, mama wants him home 

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   Daddy's on the main line, the kids all need him home 

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   Good God have mercy