Wainwright Loudon - Samson Ans The Warden guitar chord

Author/Artist: Loudon Wainwright III

Title: Samson & the Warden

Album: Album II

Transcribed by: Ramsay Wallace

Email: RamsayW1@aol.com

Loudon Wainwright III - 'Samson & the Warden'

G          D

Once I got locked up in a dirty old jail

G           D

The coffee was cold & the corn bread was stale

       C D

But I didn't cry, no I tried to be brave

     C D

Till the warden tried to give me a haircut & a shave

      G     D

Warden you can keep me for a year in your jail

          C D      G

But don't shave my beard or cut my ponytail

All you really found was some stems & some seeds

I'll give you my earrings & I'll give you my beads

I don't mind wearing one of your prison suits

I'll give you my bell-bottoms & my cowboy boots

Don't shave off my beard don't cut my hair

It took me two years to grow it & it just isn't fair.

Listen to me warden, won't you listen to me beg

Chop off a toe or foot or take a whole leg

I'm down on my knees man, you're robbing my strength

Take it easy warden won't you leave me some length

I want a lawyer warden, I want a priest

Take it easy warden leave the moustache at least

But the warden didn't hear a single word that I said

He cut off all the hair on my face & my head

But one someone's gonna come & put up my bail

& I'm gonna walk out of this dirty old jail

& the warden whose the reason I'm shedding my tears

I'm gonna send him a snapshot in two or three years