{Verse} [Am C] Spider John is my name friends [ D Am] I’m in between freights and sure would be obliged [ C G C G] If I could share your compa-ny [ Am C D G] I’m on my way to nowhere… Been runnin’ from my past [Am C G C G] Runnin’ from the things I used to beeee-ee-ee

{Verse} [ Am C] Now, I know my words sound strange to you [ D Am] But if you wait till my song is sung and the story’s told [ C G C G] You might come to under-stand [ Am C D G] Why I’m old and bent and Devil spent, and runnin’ out of time [ Am C D] When not long ago I held a Royal Flush in my hand

{Chorus} [ Em Em7] I was a supermarket fool [ A7 Em Em7 A7] I was a motor bank stool pidgeon, robbin’ my home-town [ Em Em7 A7] I thought I’d lost my blues. Yes, I thought I’d paid my dues [ F C Em Em7] I thought I’d found a life to suit my style [ G F C Am] And old Spider John, the robber man… long, tall, and handsome [ G F C Am] Yes, old Spider John with a loaded hand, takin’ ransom

{Verse} [Am C] Then one day I met Diamond Lil [D] She was the sweetest thing, I declare, [ Am C G C G] That the summer wind had ever blown my way [Am C D G] Lil, she had no idea of my il-lustrious occu-pation [ Am C G C G] She thought I was a saint, not a sinner gone a-straaay-aaay

{Verse} [Am C D] Spider, he loved his Lilly so much, he could not confess his sins [ Am C G C G] For he knew if he did, she would surely take her leave [ Am C] But you know that the word got around and Lilly left town [ D G] And he never saw her a-gain [Am C D] Tossin’ and turnin’, causin’ his heart to grieve

{Chorus} [ Em Em7] I was a supermarket fool [ A7 Em Em7 A7] I was a motor bank stool pidgeon, robbin’ my home-town [ Em Em7 A7] I thought I’d lost my blues. Yes, I thought I’d paid my dues [ F C Em Em7] I thought I’d found a life to suit my style [ G F C Am] And old Spider John, the robber man… long, tall, and handsome [ G F C Am] Yes, old Spider John with a loaded hand, takin’ ransom

{Verse} [Am C] That is all my story [ D Am] It’s been these thirty years since I took to the road [ C G C G] To find my precious jewel one [Am C D G] If you see my Lilly, won’t you give her my re-gards? [ Am C G] Tell her ol’ Spider got tangled in the black web that he spun [ Am C G C G] You can tell her ol’ Spider got tangled in the black web that he spun