Death Row Blues - Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper

Tabbed by Adam Bishop

A - x02220
D - xx0232
C - x32010
E - 022100

And of course, at the end the A and D are shuffle chords

A    D

A    D           A    D
I'm,    on death row
               A        D
I'm waiting to go, yeah yeah yeah
               A      D
I'm waiting to die

Now Uncle Mex (?) pleaded guilty to being alive
His mother begged the governor let her be by his side
And had me some problems down in uh, Mexico land
Cause I was giving it to, huh, Uncle Sam

And I don't know my name anymore
Cause it's not the same anymore
   A               C                     D
My kid said daddy, what's in the will
                 E
I need to know before you are killed

Chorus (shuffle chords) (x2)

(Shuffle chords for the rest of the song)
Well I'm uh working on a road gang outside the county jail
And it's a life for the innocents and they say it's half as bad as hell (?)
Saw Charlie's eyes kneelin' by my bed
And the Reverend Jim Jones was uh giving him head

And I had a little son uh not a dream (?)
Man and I saw another man and started to scream that

Chorus

Bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye

Chorus

Well I don't remember much about the trial
But they said the judge's daughter was just a child
And it got real quiet and they commenced to pray
And the man said boy, you got anything to say
I said God's done told me I'm a give none (?)

Oh I'm a sittin' in a chair, I'm waitin' on the news
Got a deal with the devil to get myself free
And I'm down on (???) I'm down on my knees

Chorus (x2)

That's right, I'm ready to go bye bye

(Play A shuffle over most of this, and then A-D shuffle nearer the end)
You know one night, about three nights ago, I was down by route 128, down by Old Tie 
Lakes Road (?), down by the power lines, back in the backseat of my '69 Volkswagen with 
no second gear.  Uh, I got the mighty 1090 Huggy Boy show on the radio, I got my got my 
got my radio on and I'm uh, I'm there with my number one girl in the back seat with my 
pants at my knees, uh-huh, but I ain't got no disease baby, and I say, huh, you know.  And 
Huggy Boy comes on and he says, "Uh, Mojo, special announcement up in San Quentin." 
You know, uh, they shaved his head, you know, uh, they greased his temples up, they
locked him in the chair, and uh, they got him ready for Freddy, and you know they got six 
witnesses, and the governor says, "Uh-uh, this is it," and the man says "I don't, I don't regret 
what I did, you know I did what I did, yeah, pull the switch bitch, set my hair on fire, give 
me a thousand watts of power, every hour, yeah you know, cause..."

Chorus and gibberish for the rest of the song