Killed A Man

Chorus:
       A                           C
I killed a man in the river
                 G                           D
Yeah, I watched the current
                      A
Carry him away
                 A                                    C
Yeah, I killed a man down in the river
                         G              D      
Yeah, I had to take a life 
                                       A
to keep one out the grave
 
Interlude:
A  G  D
A  G  D
 
Verse:
           A
He was friends with the devil
               A
Wasn't worth a dang
                  G
Tried to drown me in the bottle
                   D
Tried to choke me on smoke
                A
He was hurtin' my mama
            A
Had my old man
G                                                 D
Prayin' like a preacher at the end of his rope
 
Pre-chorus:
                 G
It was justified

It was self-defense
                 D
It was do-or-die
      
It was me or him
 
Chorus:
             A                            C
So I killed a man in the river
                 G                              D  
Yeah, I watched the current
                      A
Carry him away
                 A                                    C
Yeah, I killed a man down in the river
                         G      
Yeah, I had to take a life 
D                                  A
to keep one out the grave
 
Verse 2:
                 A
Didn't pull no knife
                 
Didn't fire no gun
                G    
Just held him under long enough 
             D
to put him down
            A                  
Nobody's gonna miss that prodigal son
                               G  
He's probably halfway down 
                   D
the Mississippi by now
 
Pre-chorus:
                       G
Went from guilty in sin
 
To covered in blood
               D
Now who I am ain't who I was
 
Chorus:
             A                            C
So I killed a man in the river
                 G                              D  
Yeah, I watched the current
                      A
Carry him away
                 A                                    C
Yeah, I killed a man down in the river
                         G      
Yeah, I had to take a life 
D                                  A
to keep one out the grave
 
Bridge:
G               D          A
  Wipin' muddy water out of my eyes
G                            D       A
  And that's the day that I saw the light
             G         D              A
'Bout six feet out in the Buffalo
               C
Was my Damascus Road
 
Chorus:
             A                            C
So I killed a man in the river
                 G                              D  
Yeah, I watched the current
                      A        A  G   C  A
Carry him away
                 A                                    C
Yeah, I killed a man down in the river
                         G      
Yeah, I had to take a life 
D                                  A
to keep one out the grave
 
Tag:
                                              G   
Oh, sometimes you gotta take a life
          D                          A
To keep one out the grave
 
Instrumental:
A  G  D
A  G  D
 
Outro:
A         G                     D
   I killed a man, I killed a man
        A                G   D       A   G    D
I killed a man (ohh-ohh)
                  A
He was friends with the devil

Wasn't worth a dang
                    G
Tried to drown me in the bottle
                  D                            A
Tried to choke me on smoke