Weekender 创作者：
Margo Price

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调：A major

Intro 1

Verse 1
G G 
 
I  went down to the county jail
D D 
 
And turned myself in
Spending all my weekends here
Far from my good-timing friends
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friends
Things just went from bad to worse
C C 
 
But I don't know when
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The only thing I know for sure
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G G 
 
C C 
 
G G 
 
Is I ain't going back again

Verse 2
G G 
 
They took me down to cellblock B
D D 
 
After stripping off my clothes
Put me in a monkey suit
G G 
 
And threw me in the throes
Like a rat in a maze
A cow in the herd
C C 
 
Cm Cm 
 
Or a sparrow with a broken wing
C C 
 
G G 
 
Now I know the reason why
D D 
 
G G 
 
The caged bird has to sing

Verse 3
D D 
 
'Cause I'm just a weekender
C C 
 
G G 
 
In the Davidson County Jail
D D 
 
And my old man, he ain't got the cash
C C 
 
G G 
 
To even go my bail
Should have listened to my mama
C C 
 
And quit my life of sin
G G 
 
D D 
 
Before I went backsliding again
G G 
 

Verse 4
This bed is hard and the room is cold
D D 
 
And my cellmate's got a cough
She takes her meds and sleeps all day
G G 
 
Got six more weeks til she's off
She said she beat her boyfriend up
C C 
 
While high on crack cocaine
G G 
 
And now she sits and watches
D D 
 
G G 
 
Her life go down the drain

Verse 5
D D 
 
'Cause she's just a weekender
C C 
 
G G 
 
In the Davidson County Jail
D D 
 
Her old man ain't got the cash
C C 
 
G G 
 
To even go her bail
She should have listened to her mama
C C 
 
And quit her life of sin
G G 
 
D D 
 
Before she went backsliding again
G G 
 

Interlude 1

Verse 6
G G 
 
Walk into some other room
D D 
 
They tried to make me eat
Red-dyed gravy, gravy, cardboard bread
G G 
 
And something that looked like meat
One tough girl from cellblock C
C C 
 
Picked a fight with the man at the desk
G G 
 
Mighty soon was sent back to her room
D D 
 
G G 
 
And I bet you know the rest

Verse 7
D D 
 
'Cause we're all just weekenders
C C 
 
G G 
 
In the Davidson County Jail
D D 
 
My old man ain't got the cash
C C 
 
G G 
 
To even call my bail
Should have listened to the good Lord
C C 
 
Maybe quit my life of sin
G G 
 
D D 
 
G G 
 
Before I went backsliding again
D D 
 
Before I went backsliding again
G G 
 