| G# | C# | G# | G# |

[Verse]
G#             C#                     G#
Hangin' on to every nickel and every dime 
              C#            D#
Never had a dollar to call mine
G#                            C#
I gotta work tomorrow just to pay for the day
     G#                            D#                 G#
Well I worked all that I can stand now I long for the day

[Chorus]
G#                  C#             G#
Then I can sleep in my white satin bed 
              C#                 D#
With a red velvet pillow for my head
G#                                    C# 
They'll lower me into my grave with gropes of gold and bread
     G#                        D#             G#  | E F# | 
And I'll sleep for eternity in my white satin bed

[Verse]
     A           D                   A
Well I never had no soft warm bed before
                       D        E 
Just a cold park bench or a boxcar floor
A                                     D 
Thumbin' north to the coal mines or south to cotton fields
A                                E                     A
Oh hangin' on it won't be long, till I'll know how it feels

[Chorus]
A           D               A
To sleep in my white satin bed
               D                 E
With a red velvet pillow for my head
          A                           D
They'll lower me into my grave with gropes of gold and bread
     A                         E               A
And I'll sleep for eternity in my white satin bed

[Outro]
A                              E               A
Yes I'll sleep for eternity in my white satin bed