Leg Iron Blues by Curly Weaver

Curley Weaver - Leg Iron Blues; Curley Weaver, vocals and guitar in E position, standard tuning, probably Buddy Moss, guitar in Vestapol tuning with a slide.

INTRO SOLO

Six months ain't no sentence, twelve months ain't no great long time

Six months ain't no sentence, twelve months ain't no great long time

I be in the chain gang, but I did not make ninety-nine

Take these stripes off my shoulder, babe, chains from around my leg

Take these stripes from my shoulder, chains from around my leg

These stripes don't hurt me, but the chains 'bout to kill me dead

SOLO

Baby, you wouldn't've come to see me, honey, when I had so long

You wouldn't've come to see me, baby, when I had so long

Now I'm a free man again, honey, and right back home

When I met you, baby, your old skirts was full of holes

When I met you, baby, your old skirts was full of holes

Now you done got lucky, can't touch you with a ten-foot pole

CODA