Trudy

INTRO:
A ↓

CHORUS:
                      D7
Call up Trudy on the telephone
                         A7
Send a letter in the mail
                         E7
Tell her I'm hung up in Dallas
                                 A7
And they won't let me outta this jail

                            D7
And if she asks you how I'm faring
                                   A7
Tell her I'm just about to lose my mind
                             E7
Worried about old Johnny Lee Walker
                      A7    A ↓
And the girl I left behind

VERSE:
                                   D7
Now Johnny Lee Walker was a card mechanic
                                     A7
Had a hand for trouble and an eye for cash
                       E7
Luckiest man in Dallas County
                                          A7
He had a gold watch chain and a black moustache

                                          D7
And he loved his whiskey and he loved his women
                               A7
Drove a big long Cadillac limousine
                               E7
Kept a big fine fancy townhouse in Dallas
                           A7
And a hotel suite in New Orleans

                                            D7
Carried a switchblade knife in his left hip pocket
                              A7
And a 44 hog leg up under his coat
                           E7
Cut you down in a New York minute
                                          A7    A ↓
If he catch you cheating that was all she wrote

CHORUS:
                      D7
Call up Trudy on the telephone
                         A7
Send a letter in the mail
                         E7
Tell her I'm hung up in Dallas
                                 A7
And they won't let me outta this jail

                            D7
And if she asks you how I'm faring
                                   A7
Tell her I'm just about to lose my mind
                             E7
Worried about old Johnny Lee Walker
                      A7    A ↓
And the girl I left behind

VERSE: (Bass)
                              D7
I just got to town last Friday evening
                            A7
Sure as hell didn't mean to stay
                              E7
I was on my way back to Louisiana
                                     A7
Had a powerful thirst and six months pay

(+ Guitar)
                                    D7
I met a peroxide blonde in a bar on D-ville
                                A7
I was flying high and feeling mean
                                   E7
Poured down a bottle and a half of red eye
                                   A7
I dropped 35 dollars in the slot machine

(+ Piano)
                                     D7
And the boys in the back was dealing seven card
                                    A7
I set down and won me a hundred and ten
                                      E7
I was raking in chips like Grant took Richmond
                                     A7
Till big Johnny Lee come a strolling in

                                 D7
He ripped off the table like a 707
                                 A7
Pretty soon he done won all of my bread
                                           E7
I accused him of cheating he reached for a pistol
                                         A7
I grabbed a chair and went upside of his head

                                      D7
Then I took off a running like a motorcycle
                                     A7
Heard the bullets whining and sirens wail
                                     E7
But it took half the cops in Dallas County
                                A7    A ↓
Just to put one coon ass boy in jail

CHORUS:
                      D7
Call up Trudy on the telephone
                         A7
Send a letter in the mail
                         E7
Tell her I'm hung up in Dallas
                                 A7
And they won't let me outta this jail

                            D7
And if she asks you how I'm faring
                                   A7
Tell her I'm just about to lose my mind
                             E7
Worried about old Johnny Lee Walker
                      A7
And the girl I left behind          (Repeat final chorus and then fade out)