Jamey Johnson – Trudy (Guitar)

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As recorded by Jamey Johnson feat. Randy Houser (2024 release) [Intro] N.C. [Chorus]
                     C7
Call up Trudy on the telephone

                             G7
Send her a letter in the mail

                        D7
Tell her I'm hung up in Dallas

                                 G7
And they won't let me outta this jail

                        C7
If she asks you how I'm fairing

                                G7
Tell her I'm just about to lose my mind

                              D7
Worrying about old Johnny Lee Walker

                      G7
And the girl I left behind
[Verse 1]
                               C7
Now John Lee Walker was a card mechanic

                                     G7
Had a hand for trouble and a eye for cash

                           D7
The luckiest man in Dallas County

                                      G7
Had a gold watch chain and a black mustache

G7
And he loved his whiskey

         C7
And he loved his women

                               G7
Drove a big long Cadillac limousine

                                   D7
Kept a big fine fancy townhouse in Dallas

                           G7
And a hotel suite in New Orleans

                                         C7
Kept a switchblade knife in his left hip pocket

                               G7
And a .44 hog leg up under his coat

                                 D7
He'll cut you down in a New York minute

                                          G7
If he catch you cheating that was all she wrote
[Chorus]
                        C7
So call up Trudy on the telephone

                             G7
Send her a letter in the mail

                        D7
Tell her I'm hung up in Dallas

                                 G7
And they won't let me outta this jail

                        C7
If she asks you how I'm fairing

                                G7
Tell her I'm just about to lose my mind

                              D7
Worrying about old Johnny Lee Walker

                      G7
And the girl I left behind
[Verse 2]
                               C7
I just got to town last Friday evening

                              G7
I sure as hell didn't mean to stay

                            D7
I was on my way back to Louisiana

                                     G7
Had a powerful thirst and six months pay

                                  C7
Met a peroxide blonde in a bar on Deville

                              G7
I was flying high and feeling mean

                                  D7
Poured down a bottle and a half a red eye

                                            G7
I dropped thirty-five dollars in the slot machine

                                       C7
And the boys in the back was a-dealing seven cards

                                    G7
I sat down and won me a hundred and ten

                                    D7
Oh I was raking in chips like Grant took Richmond

                                     G7
Till big Johnny Lee came a-strolling in

                                     C7
And he ripped off the table like a 707

                               G7
Pretty soon he done won all of my bread

G7
I accused him of cheating

                 D7
He reached for a pistol

                                           G7
I grabbed a chair and I went upside of his head

                                    C7
Then I took off running like a motorcycle

                                           G7
I heard the bullets whining and the sirens wail

                                    D7
But it took half the cops in Dallas County

                                G7
Just to put one coon ass boy in jail
[Chorus]
                        C7
So call up Trudy on the telephone

                             G7
Send her a letter in the mail

                        D7
Tell her I'm hung up in Dallas

                                 G7
And they won't let me outta this jail

                        C7
If she asks you how I'm fairing

                                G7
Tell her I'm just about to lose my mind

                              D7
Worrying about old Johnny Lee Walker

                      G7
And the girl I left behind

                     C7
Call up Trudy on the telephone

                             G7
Send her a letter in the mail

                        D7
Tell her I'm hung up in Dallas

                                 G7
And they won't let me outta this jail

                        C7
If she asks you how I'm fairing

                                G7
Tell her I'm just about to lose my mind

                              D7
Worrying about old Johnny Lee Walker

                      G7
And the girl I left behind
[Outro] N.C. G7