From: * (Stuart Christopherson)
Johnson s original recording and this transcription are both in the key
of A. A standard guitar tuning is used. A capo is used on the second fret.
/ = denotes slide
* = denotes bending 1/4 step
Introduction
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If I send for my baby, man and she don t come
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If I send for my baby, man and she don t come
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All the doctors in Hot Springs sure can t help her none.
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And if she gets unruly, thinks she don t want to do.
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If she gets unruly and thinks she don t want to do.
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Take my thirty-two-twenty, now I cut her half in two.
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She got a east.
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If I send for my baby - and she don t come.
If I send for my baby - man, and she don t come.
All the doctors in Hot Springs sure can t help her none.
And if she gets unruly, things she don t want to do.
And if she gets unruly and thinks she don t want to do.
Take my 32-20 now, and cut her half in two.
She got a .38 special but I believe it s most too light.
She got a .38 special but I believe it s most too light.
I got a 32-20, got to make the camps alright.
If I send for my baby - and she don t come.
If I send for my baby - man, and she don t come.
All the doctors in Hot Springs sure can t help her none.
I m gonna shoot my pistol, gonna shoot my Gatling gun.
I m gonna shoot my pistol, got-ta shoot my Gatling gun.
You made me love you - now your man have come.
Ah-oh - baby, where you stay last night?
Ah - baby, where you stayed last night?
You got the hair all tangled and you ain t talking right.
Her .38 special, boys, do it very well.
Her .38 special, boys, it do very well.
I got a 32-20 now, and it s a burning.
If I send for my baby - and she don t come.
If I send for my baby - man, and she don t come.
All the doctors in Wisconsin sure can t help her none.
Hey, hey, baby, where d you stay last night?
Hey, hey, baby, where d you stay last night?
You didn t come home until the sun was shining bright.
Ah-oh - boy, I just can t take my rest.
Ah-oh - boy, I just can t take my rest.
With this 32-20 laying up and down my breast.