Chris Knight – Beckys Bible (Ukulele)

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F                  F 
Empty beer bottles rattle on my pistol

Am                G             F
On the seat of my Chevy pickup truck

F
I'm taking these gravel roads

F
fast as my truck will go

    Am             G                 F
I'm running like a scared white tail buck

          F                   F 
It was an all night card game with Earl Ray and Bobby

    Am                G               F
And some old boy they work with from Adair

F                       F
That boy didn't like me then he said I was cheating

 Am            G                   F      G
gunshots rang out on the midnight air 
Chorus”
        F               G
I don't want to see the daylight

F              F
But my Becky's alone tonight

  F           G              F
I wonder if she's waiting up for me

F
I’m gonna hide out in the bottoms

F
Where I hunted deer and turkeys

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I know that swamp like the back of my hand

F
Hell I was born and raised here

F
Just wanted to be a good old boy

Am            G                   F  
never thought I'd ever be a wanted man

F
Well soon they're gonna catch me,

F
Ain't no way around that

A                  G                  F
Cause I don't know any other place to hide

F                          F   
I wonder if Becky's bible is still in the glove box

Am                   G                   F       G
Cause I'm sure gonna need it if that boy dies
Chorus
F
Sometime tomorrow morning

F
When I ought to be fishing

Am               G             F
They'll probably be hauling me in

F
I'll be sitting in the jail house

F
no need to be wishing

Am                    G                    F         G
That I'll ever get to fish the Green river again

        F                G  
I'll be praying for some daylight

F                 F
While my Becky's alone at night

  F               G              F 
I wonder if she's waiting up for me     

  F               G              F 
I wonder if she's waiting up for me