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Little Sadie

Source Recording: The Tony Rice Unit (1979)

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Song Details

Songwriter

Traditional

First Release

Buddy Baker (1928)

Themes

Murder Outlaw

Attributes

Minor Key Flat Chords

Popularity

Average

Source Recording

Artist

The Tony Rice Unit

Album

Manzanita (1979)

Key Em Time Boom-Chuck Tempo 115 BPM Length 2:46 ISRC USRO28709203

Musicians

Tony Rice — Lead Vocals, Guitar
Sam Bush — Mandolin, Fiddle
Jerry Douglas — Dobro
Todd Phillips — Bass

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Little Sadie

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I went out one night for to make a little round

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I met little Sadie and I shot her down

Went back home got into bed

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A forty-four pistol under my head

I wake up the next morning about half past nine

The hacks and the buggies all standing in line

Gents and gamblers standing around

Carrying little Sadie to her burying ground

Well I began to think of what a deed I’d done

I grabbed my hat and away I run

Made a good run but a little too slow

They overtook me in Jericho

I was standing on the corner reading the bill

When up stepped the sheriff from Thomasville

Said young man ain’t your name Brown

Remember the night you shot Sadie down

Well I said yes sir but my name is Lee

And I shot little Sadie in the first degree

First degree and the second degree

If you got any papers won’t you read them to me

They took me down town and dressed me in black

And they put me on a train and started me back

All the way back to that Thomasville jail

And I had no money for to go my bail

Well the judge and the jury took their stand

The judge had the papers in his right hand

Forty-one days and forty-one nights

Forty-one years to wear the ball and stripes

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