Glen Campbell – Muddy Water (Guitar)

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Well I washed my hands in the muddy water

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I washed my hands but they didn't come clean

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I tried to do what my daddy told me

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But I must've washed my hands in a muddy stream

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Well Jerry was a boy down there in Georgia

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And they kept Jeery's Daddy yes in a Georgia jail

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Daddy said son if you keep your hands clean  unhuh

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Well you won't hear them blood hounds on your trail

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Let me tell ya' fell in with bad companions

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And we robbed the mail off this truck in Tennessee

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Well they locked me up just about the time I hit nashville

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And when the jailor locked the door he just swallowed the Key son

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Well I washed my hands in muddy water

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Well I Washed my hands but they didn't come clean

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I tried to do what my daddy told me

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But I must have washed my hands in a muddy stream

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Now I asked the jailor I said when's my time up

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And he said son just so you know that this ole' boy won't forget

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You've got to try and just keep your hands clean

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And We might just make a descent man outta' you yet

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But I didn't wait till my time was up

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Jerry broke out broke out of that Nashville jail

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And he crossed down there to Atlanta Georgia

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And now all you can hear them blood hounds on his trail

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Well I washed my hands in the muddy water

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Well washed my hands but they didn't come clean

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I tried to do what my daddy told me

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But I must have washed my hands in a muddy stream

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Yes I must have washed my hands in a muddy stream