Riff 1
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--3---------3--3---|-------2--3--3------|
-----5--3---------5|-3--3---------------|
Riff 2
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--3--------3--3----|-------2--5--5------|
-----5--3--------5-|-3--3---------------|
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| | Riff 1 | Riff 1 | Riff 2 | Riff 1 | |
| | C | G | C |
| | Early in the evenin' j | ust about supper | time, over by the courthouse, |
| | G | C | F | C |
| they're | starting to unw | ind, | four kids on the corner, | trying to bring you up, |
| | G | C |
| Willy picks a tune out and he | blows it on the | harp. |
| | F | C | G | C | F | C |
| | Down on the | corner, | out in the | street, Willy and the | Poorboys are | playin' |