F#m E7(#9) F#m Bm C#m [Riff] F#m [Verse 1] F#m Well now Jesse was a gambler. Night and day Bm F#m He used crooked cards and dice C# C#m Son of a guy, good-hearted, but had no soul Bm F#m His heart was hard and cold like ice C#m F#m Now Jesse was a wild reckless gambler, but one game he could not win G# F#m Sweet Lorena 'outta north atlanta She stole his heart from him C#m And she was married to a rich man with a house on a hill F#m But Jesse had to see her still C#m So come the shadows of night. He came around Bm C#m F#m And he cut the old man down C#m Broke his heart, left him cold out alone Bm C#m F#m Sweet Lorena packed up and gone C#m And the police walked up and shot my friend down B F#m He said "Boys, I gotta die today" G# C#m He had eight crapshooters around his bedside B F#m To hear the words he had to say C#m F#m "guess I 'otta know exactly hows I wanna to go" How you wanna go Jesse? [Riff] F#m [Verse 2] F#m C# F#m Eight crapshooter to be my pallbearers. Let 'em all be bailed down in black I want nine men going to the graveyard, buddy But just eight men are coming back G# C#m I want gamblers gathered around my coffin side, Bm F#m A crooked card upon my hearse F#m Don't say the crapshooters Fm F# Are allowed to grieve over me E C# That there doggone curse [Riff] F#m [Verse 3] F#m 16 real good crapshooters C# 16 bootlegger there to sing songs Bm 16 hobos off the casey line C# F#m To kick up dust while I'm rollin' along C#m C# (All the hoes that I used to know from way before Kiss me from my head to my toes Bm C#m Give me paper and pen so I can write about my life of sin C# F#m couple bottles of gin in case I don't get in F#m His head was aching. His heart was thumpin C#m F#m E Jesse went down bouncin' and jumpin' He said,"folks don't be standin around moanin' and cryin" C# C#m He wants everybody to do the charleston whilst he dies F#m One foot up and a toenail draggin' C# Throw my buddy Jesse in the hoodoo wagon Bm Come here mama with your can of booze [Chorus] C# F#m Dyin' crapshooter's blues (help me) C# F#m Dyin' crapshooter's blues (goin down) C# F#m With the dyin' crapshooter's blues