Tom: C
C
It was only yesterday I thought I'd take a bath in some water
C D G
For a bath I hadn't had in goodness knows when
C
And for that bath I didn't want to pay a quarter
F G C
So I run down to the creek and jumped right in
F C
I hung my clothes upon an apple tree limb
C D G
'Twas there I got into an awful fix
C
When an old maid come down and set right beside them
F G C
And there she sat from one o'clock to six
C G C
In the shade of the old apple tree
G C
I's in water right up to my knee
G C
I had to lay down while she was around
D G
'Til only my nose you could see
C
Mosquitoes was biting my nose
G C
And the crawdads was nibbling my toes
G C F
I lay there all day 'til she went away
C G C
From the shade of the old apple tree
Here comes the pitiful part, boys and girls
[Verse]
C
It was only yesterday that Jane and I got hitched
C D G
You bet your life I was a happy groom
C
There was only one thing that filled my heart with sadness
F G C
Was parts of her were scattered all over the room
F C
Her glass eye and false teeth was on the mantle
C D G
And on the bed she hung her lock of hair
C
And there was only one thing that filled my heart with sadness
F G C
Was she pitched her wooden leg upon a chair
C G C
It was a limb from that old apple tree
G C
I's in water right up to my knee
G C
I had to lay down while she was around
D G
'Til only my nose you could see
C
Mosquitoes was biting my nose
G C
And the crawdads was nibbling my toes
G C F
I lay there all day 'til she went away
C G C
From the shade of the old apple tree
G C F
Yes, I carved out my name and there it was plain
G C
On her limb from the old apple tree
