Reasons I Cheat Chords

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Reasons I Cheat by Randy Travis is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A, D, B7 and E. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			Verse 1 
 
A 
Well that judge he found me guilty of wrong doing 
   D                           A 
he sentenced me to hang in mid-july 
A 
He look down at me and said you are a ruin 
B7                                     E 
If I were you I'd break right down and cry 
    A 
But nobody seems to care that I ain't guilty 
  D                                   A 
I never did the things they said I've done 
A 
But it looks like they're gonna to hang somebody 
         E                               A 
and it's lookin like I'm goin to be the one 

A         D                      A 
(So just) send my body home on a freight train 
    D                                A 
and don't worry none that I don't go first class 
D                      A 
Send my body home on a freight train 
b7                            E 
So everyone can see me when I pass 
          D                         A 
and don't worry none about no fancy funeral 
D                               A 
it don't matter how they lay me down 
D                       A 
see they bury me out by mama's apple tree 
                      E               A 
and just send my body back to my home town

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100 BPM Andante