Chords by Chase Chafin
http://www.facebook.com/ChaseChafinandTheConductor
This song is way more complex and just strumming chords, but this at least gives you
some thing to go by.
There's also a tabbed out version here:
tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/b/blind_blake/hes_in_the_jailhouse_now_tab_778148id_19012009date.htm
Verse One:
C
Remember last election,
C
Everybody was in action,
C G7
Tryin to find themselves a president
G7
There was a man named Lawson,
G7
From New York down to Boston,
D G
Representing the colored people we had sent
Verse Two:
C
My brother was a voter,
C
also a great promoter,
C G7
goin round givin advice
D
They'd go to the poll and vote
D G7
Instead of voting once he voted twice
Chorus:
C
He's in the jailhouse now
F C
He's in the jailhouse now
F D7
We got him down town in jail
C A7
No one to go his bail
C G C
He's in the jailhouse now
