Traditional - Pay Me My Money Down guitar chord

Pay Me My Money Down

(arr. by Bruce Springsteen from the album "We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions")

5/1/06

NOTE: Obviously, you don't have to follow such a strange arrangement. I don't know why

he goes to Bb for one verse/break, but he does, so that's what I posted here.

G D

I thought I heard the captain say, pay me my money down

G

Tomorrow is our sailin' day, pay me my money down

D

Pay me, pay me, pay me my money down

G

Pay me or go to jail, pay me my money down

G D

Soon as that was clear the bar, pay me my money down

G

He knocked me down with a spar, pay me my money down

D

Pay me, pay me, pay me my money down

G

Pay me or go to jail, pay me my money down

BREAK

G D

Well if I'd been a rich man's son, pay me my money down

G

I'd sit on the river and watch it run, pay me my money down

D

Pay me, pay me, pay me my money down

G

Pay me or go to jail, pay me my money down

BREAK

(KEY CHANGE TO Bb)

Bb F

Well I was I wish Mr. Gates, pay me my money down

Bb

They'd haul my money in in crates, pay me my money down

F

Pay me, pay me, pay me my money down

Bb

Pay me or go to jail, pay me my money down

BREAK

(KEY CHANGE BACK TO G)

G D

Well forty days and nights at sea, pay me my money down

G

Captain worked every last dollar outta me, pay me my money down

D

Pay me, pay me, pay me my money down

G

Pay me or go to jail, pay me my money down

D

Pay me, pay me, pay me my money down

G

Pay me or go to jail, pay me my money down

D

Pay me, pay me, pay me my money down

G

Pay me or go to jail, pay me my money down

BREAK out