Ninety-Nine chords by
Bill Anderson

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Intro 1

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Verse 1
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My mama always told me
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better than to play with a loaded gun
If I'd've just listened to her
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she'd've never had a prisoner for a son
The picture's still in front of my
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eyes the echo in my ears
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When the jury said he's guilty and
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the judge said ninety- nine years
Oh for ninety- nine years I'll watch
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the sunrise over that some old sea
Ninety- nine years nothing but
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an empty cell for company
Yet there's not very much that stands
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between me and the freedom I hold dear
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Just a thousand bars a big brick wall
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and a sentence of ninety- nine years

Verse 2
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I kissed my darling on her tender
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lips and they took me by the hand
I had a nice little ride on a ferry boat to
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the rock where the prison stands
The warden said as he locked the
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door I hope you'll like it here
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Just make yourself a home you're gonna
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be with us ninety- nine years
I've almost forgotten what my real name
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is been a number for so long
Making little bitty rocks out of great big
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rocks gets old as the days wear on
But I'll do my best for ninety- nine
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years just try to stay alive
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Cause the Governor said if I'd be good
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I'd get out in ninety- five