Philadelphia Lawyer

Source Recording Artist: Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys

Album: Folk Songs of Our Land (1962)

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Song Details

Title: Philadelphia Lawyer

Songwriter(s):

Woody Guthrie

First Release: Maddox Brothers and Rose (1949)

Themes: Murder, Cowboy, Infidelity

Other Genres: Folk

Source Recording Details

Key: F

Time Signature: Waltz

Tempo (BPM): 162

Track Length: 2:46

Musicians:

Lead Singer:

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Philadelphia Lawyer

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Way out in Reno Nevada where the romances bloom and they fade
4 5 1
Was a great Philadelphia lawyer in love with a Hollywood maid
 

Come love and we will wander down where the lights are so bright
I’ll win you divorce from your husband and we can get married tonight

Now Bill was a gun-totin’ cowboy with ten notches carved on his gun
And all the boys around Reno left wild Bill’s darlin’ alone

One night as Bill was returning from ridin’ the range in the cold
He thought of his Hollywood darlin’ with her love as lasting as gold

As bill drew near to her window two shadows he saw on the shade
‘Twas the great Philadelphia lawyer makin’ love to his Hollywood maid

The night was as still as the desert and the moon hangin’ high overhead
Bill listened awhile at her window he could hear every word that they said

Your face is so pretty and lovely and your form so rare and divine
Come and go with me to Philadelphia and leave this wild cowboy behind

Well tonight back in old Pennsylvania among the beautiful pines
There’s one less Philadelphia lawyer in old Philadelphia tonight

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