Peg leg Jessie?s Daughter
Buddy Jewel                 (One of the worlds best country singers!)

Submitted By Tiny Man
kellymark@rogers.com

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Just south of town about a half mile down pass cemetery ridge around behind the lively
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Were the long scroll hanging there?s one lane wooden bridge that leads to a back woods
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Beer joint bar they call the loaded dice Cross that bridge once you might not cross it twice.


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I know first hand that it?s run by a man called Peg leg Jessie Long He got his name from
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A poker game he was cheating and went wrong He?s got a cagen daughter and old Jessie
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Taught her how a double deal a man She cast her spell that jezebel hosier her down like sinking Sam


[Chorus]
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He?s the means man in Calhoun County daddy worn his son old Jessie?s Gun Don?t ever leave his
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Hand, and I hear the devil was is father, for you can?t walk on water, So don?t press your luck with
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Peg leg Jessie?s daughter


[Solo]       E     A     E     G     A    E


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I was young and wild that devils child was dealing at the dice, and I saltier her voice and said hay boy
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Tonight sure looking right, well the lights were low, when I pulled her close out on that sawdust floor
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When are lips touched old Jessie cussed and cocked that forty four




[Chorus]
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He?s the means man in Calhoun County daddy worn his son old Jessie?s Gun Don?t ever leave his
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Hand, and I hear the devil was is father, for you can?t walk on water, So don?t press your luck with
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Peg leg Jessie?s daughter


[Bridge]
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I was running fast when the bullet passed and slammed into that door,
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He yelled bet your life I wouldn?t miss twice don?t come around here no more


[Chorus]
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Cause I?m the means man in Calhoun County, hay you heard son old Jessie?s Gun
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Don?t ever leave his hand, you can bet your bottom dollar, you wind up in deep water,
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If you press your luck with Peg leg Jessie?s daughter, oh don?t press your luck with
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Peg leg Jessie?s daughter


E                                                                               E
Just south of town about a half mile down pass cemetery ridge around behind the lively
                                               B                                  A
Were the long scroll hanging there?s one lane wooden bridge that leads to a back woods
                         E                 A           E                        B                   E
Beer joint bar they call the loaded dice Cross that bridge once you might not cross it twice.


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