"Mississippi Flush"
Ray Wylie Hubbard - Eternal & Down Low
Key of G
[Riff]
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G
Well they?ve got a little game called five card draw,
they take it serious in Arkansas
G C
You can make a little money wagerin? on cards
G
Can?t get to heaven livin? this hard
D
Deliver me from my sorrow and shame
G
Release me from my burden and pain
G
Its a one eyed jack and the suicide king
Ace of spades and two black queens
C
Never draw to an inside straight
G
I feel the ten?s knockin? at the gate
D
Deliver me from my sorrow and shame
G
Release me from my burden and pain
[Chorus]
G C
Oh blackbird, blackbird fly away home
G
Say a prayer over St. John?s bones
D
Tell the gambler?s their gonna die alone
G
Blackbird, blackbird fly away home
C
Oh blackbird, blackbird come back again
G
Don?t tell momma where I?ve been
D
I?m goin? to the river, I?m gonna jump in
G
Oh blackbird, blackbird come back again
[Solo]
C G D G C G D G
G
It?s an ace high straight in all the same suit
Read?em and weep this hand can?t lose
C
Somebody said that ain?t good enough
G
?Cause that don?t beat a Mississippi Flush
G
Mr. Ledbetter can you tell me again?
G
What?s a Mississippi Flush and how?s it beat this hand?
C
He said they don?t ask questions in the grave yard
G
It?s a small revolver and any five cards
D
Deliver me from my sorrow and shame
G
Release me from my burden and pain
[Chorus]
G C
Oh blackbird, blackbird fly away home
G
Say a prayer over St. John?s bones
D
Tell the gambler?s their gonna die alone
G
Blackbird, blackbird fly away home
C
Oh blackbird, blackbird come back again
G
Don?t tell momma where I?ve been
D
I?m goin? to the river, I?m gonna jump in
G
Oh blackbird, blackbird come back again