Jimmie Rodgers – My Time Aint Long (Guitar)

                 G          C
I will go to the gallows at sunrise

     F                 C
They say I am going to hang

            F                          C
Through the opening will fall my young body

       D7                   G7
On the end of a rope I will swing

   C             G7          C        C7
My pals have all died on the gallows

    F                F7
And I am awaiting my time

       F                    C
If you wander astray in the struggle

     G7                       C
Your life will be wasted like mine

  F                       C
I think of my heartbroken mother

    D7                         G7
Her pleadings have all been in vain

    C           C7           F
She suffered to rear me from childhood

    D7                     G7
And now I'm her sorrow and shame

      C         G7          C7
Young man don't sin to your sorrow

      F                         F7
Don't shatter your dear mothers name

   F                       C
My pals have all gone on before me

    G7                 C
And I am a lad left in pain

| C | C |
[yodel]

                 G7          C         C7
No more will the boys gather round me

    F                          C
The pals that I love have gone on

       F                       C
I will die when the new day is dawning

   D7                          G7
To pay for the deeds I've done wrong

 C           G7         C        C7
Alone I will die on the gallows

 F                       F7
Alone I will cross the divide

    F                   C
But bury me there by my sweetheart

   G7                             C
To sleep through the years by her side

     F                        C
Dear mother it's soon I'll be going

   D                       G7
Oh mother I'll go with the dawn

    C7                          F
The bright stars are now dimmer growing

     D7                      G7
Dear mother my time won't be long

   C        G7           C
Oh mother I know how you love me

    F                   F7
But mother I'm going to hang

   F                       C
My pals have all gone on before me

  G7                          C
I guess I have played my last game

| C | C | G7 | C |
[yodel]