Tom Dooley (Simplified)

Traditional

Key of G · Chords: I V

# Tabbed by Cade T.


# columns: 2

Suggested Order: Start with Chorus Verse Chorus

then move to Verse, Verse, Chorus

Chorus

G
Hang your head, Tom Dooley,
                   D
Hang your head and cry;
    D
You killed poor Laurie Foster,
                             G
And you know you're bound to die.

Verse

You left her by the roadside
Where you begged to be excused;
You left her by the roadside
Then you hid her clothes and shoes.

Verse

You took her on the hillside
For to make her your wife;
You took her on the hillside,
And there you took her life.

Verse

You dug the grave four feet long
And you dug it three feet deep;
You rolled the cold clay over her
And tromped it with your feet.

Verse

Trouble, oh it's trouble
A-rollin' through my breast;
As long as I'm a-livin', boys,
They ain't a-gonna let me rest.

Verse

I know they're gonna hang me,
Tomorrow I'll be dead,
Though I never even harmed a hair
On poor little Laurie's head.

Verse

In this world and one more
Then reckon where I'll be;
If is wasn't for Sheriff Grayson,
I'd be in Tennessee.

Verse

You can take down my old violin
And play it all you please.
For at this time tomorrow, boys,
It'll be of no use to me.

Verse

At this time to-morrow
Where do you reckon I'll be?
Away down yonder in the holler
Hangin' on a white oak tree.

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