Rivers Johnny - Muddy Water guitar chord

Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 21:54:51 -0700

From: Collins Crapo

Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature,alt.guitar.tab

MUDDY WATER

songwriting credits unavailable

performed by Johnny Rivers

tab transcribed by Collins Crapo

G / / / 2 /

                     D

I was home in Macon, Georgia

                   D7             G

They kept my Daddy   in the Macon jail

                                C

He said, "Son, if you keep your hands clean, uh huh

G                    D7                  G

You won't hear those bloodhounds on your trail"

Verse 2:

I fell in with bad companions

I robbed a man up in Tennessee

And I got caught way up in Nashville, uh huh now

And they locked me up and threw away the key

CHORUS (same pattern as above 2 verses):

I washed my hands in muddy water

I washed my hands, but they didn't come clean

I tried to do like my daddy told me, now

I must have washed my hands in a muddy stream

Verse 3:

E7            A                       E

  I asked the jailer, said "When's my time up?"

             E7                     A

He said "Son,  you know we won't forget

                                  D

And if you try and just keep your hands clean, uh huh

    A                  E7              A

Why we may just make a good man of you yet"

Verse 4:

But I didn't wait to get my time in

I broke down, broke out the Nashville jail

I just crossed Atlanta, Georgia, oh now

And I can hear those bloodhounds on my trail

(chorus; same pattern as above 2 verses)

F7            Bb             F

  I washed my hands in muddy water

                   F7                     Bb

I washed my hands,   but they didn't come clean

                            Eb

I tried to do like my daddy told me, now

  Bb                  F7               Bb

I must have washed my hands in a muddy stream

(repeat last line twice)