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Please Don't Let Me Out chords by Johnny Cash

  • G

  • C

  • D

  • Bb

Intro 1
G
C
G
D
G
Verse 1
G
I've been in jail eleven
C
G
years and parole has just come through
The gates will soon swing open wide
D
but I'm not going through
C
Jail's the only home I know
G
or care to know about
Please let me stay where I belong
D
G
please don't let me out

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Verse 2
C
How could I tell those friends of mine
G
they've seen the last of me
Can't I make you understand
D
I never can be free
C
'Cause that's a big unfriendly world
G
and I don't know the route
That leads to where I may belong
D
G
please don't let me out
Interlude 1
G
C
G
D
G
Verse 3
G
I had to learn to get along
C
G
without a lot of things
And I had to learn to live with the
D
loneliness confinement brings
C
And I learnt to take no mail from home
G
or whatever came about
Now I'm dug in and I'm happy
D
G
here please don't let me out
Verse 4
C
How could I tell those friends of
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D
C
mine
G
D
G
C
Yes that's a big unfriendly
Outro 1
world
G
Bb
D
G
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