Johnny Cash - Mississippi Sand: chords

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I was born down in the bottoms of the flat black Delta land
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I grew up picking cotton in the Mississippi sand
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My mama said son take that girl and go make her your wife
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Or you'll be stuck here in this mud all of your life

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Will the water roll it all way this secret that I hold
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Will the water roll it all away will it cleanse my aching soul
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But a man's got to make it sometime a man's got to take a stand
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Or he'll get left in the Mississippi sand

A stranger came to town with two torn shoes upon his feet
Singing songs of sadness picking girls off of the street
He made a little bit of music was a leader of a band
And they call him the muddy Mississippi band

My girl was Ruby Colter and she was on her teens
I took her out to churches to socials schools and things
She was a rose just right for picking and he nipped her in the bud
And he left her here in the Mississippi mud

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Then me and old Carl we caught him right down by the store
We choked him just a little bit and held him to the floor
We relived him of his pocketbook his blood and other things
Now the Mississippi man's no longer mean

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