The Carter Family – Worried Man Blues (Guitar)

D Tuning (D-G-C-F-A-D)
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Recorded 1930 by the original Carter family, Maybelle, Sara and AP. [Introduction] C F C G7 C [Chorus]
   C
It takes a worried man to sing a worried song

   F                      C
It takes a worried man to sing a worried song

            G7                          C
I'm worried now, but I won't be worried long
[Verse 1]
  C
I went across the river and I lay down to sleep

  F                           C 
I went across the river and I lay down to sleep

            G7                         C
When I woke up, put the shackles on my feet
[Verse 2]
C
Twenty-nine links of chain around my leg

F                    C
Twenty-nine links of chain around my leg

            G7                    C
And on each link is initial of my name
[Chorus]
   C
It takes a worried man to sing a worried song

   F                      C
It takes a worried man to sing a worried song

            G7                          C
I'm worried now, but I won't be worried long
[Instrumental break] C F C G7 C [Verse 3]
C
I asked the judge, what might be my fine

  F                C
I asked the judge, what might be my fine

           G7                         C
Twenty-one years on the R.C. Mountain Line
[Verse 4]
    C
The train I ride, sixteen coaches long

    F             C
The train I ride, sixteen coaches long

           G7                        C
The girl I love is on that train and gone
[Chorus]
   C
It takes a worried man to sing a worried song

   F                      C
It takes a worried man to sing a worried song

            G7                          C
I'm worried now, but I won't be worried long
[Instrumental break] C F C G7 C [Verse 5]
   C
If anyone ask you who composed this song

   F              C
If anyone ask you who composed this song

               G7                       C
Tell 'em 'twas I, and I sing it all day long
[Chorus]
   C
It takes a worried man to sing a worried song

   F                      C
It takes a worried man to sing a worried song

            G7                          C
I'm worried now, but I won't be worried long