Joe Bean
Key: CEnglish
Spoken
Last time we were here at Folsom Prison
They were hanging Joe Bean. Is Joe still here... Joe Bean?
Hang the son of a bitch anyways right?
Well they're hanging Joe Bean this morning
For killing a man in Arkansas. Funny thing about it
Joe Bean has never been to Arkansas. On top of that
Joe Bean never heard of the man. In fact today is
Joe Bean's twentieth birthday.
Verse
CSee through the prison bars Joe Bean
See where the gallows stand G
Just twenCty short years C7from the day you Fwere born
You Cdied by the hangGman's hand. C
Chorus
Yes they're hanCging Joe Bean this morning
For a shooting that he never did G
He kilCled 20 men C7by the Ftime he was 10
He was Can unGruly kid. C
Yes they're hanFging Joe Bean for the one shooCting
That Joe GBean never did. C
Verse
Well Joe Cyour mother is at the Capitol
Asking the governor for a stay. G
And it's Chard on her C7'cause she knows where Fyou were
On that CparticuGlar day. C
You were worFking Joe Bean hard working C
GRobbing the Santa Fe. C
Verse
Well the teleCgraph wires are humming
Here the governor's words come through. G
He said "I Ccan't set you free C7it's not Fup to me
But there's much CJoe Bean GI'll do. C
I'll Fjoin your mother in extenCding birthGday greetings to you
HapCpy Birthday Joe Bean."