Prison Gate Blues chords by Roosevelt Sykes
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Verse 1
(B minor) (G minor) (D major) (A major) (B minor) (B flatdim) (D major) (A flatdim) (D major) (Fdim) (G major)
(D major) I (A major) got (D major) five years in the state penitentiary, in 1938.
I got five (G major) years in the (D major) state penitentiary.
(G major) Oh, (D major) boy, the 1938 (A major)
(D major) My lawyer tried (E major) to beat (A major) the ref
But the judge (G major) (D major) said it was
too late (G major) (Fdim) (D major)
(A major) I began (D major) to feel sad
When (G major) those prison gates (A major) slammed (D major) (A major)
(D major) I began (G major) to feel (D major) sad when I (A major) heard (B flat major) those pris
(D major) on gates slam I (A major) (D major) can't see (E major) the one (A major) I love, oh
No, (G major) it (B flat major) doesn't look (D major) the way I
am. (B minor) (B flat major) (D major) (A major)
They'd been (D major) sent to every place where (G major) I
didn't have (D major) a chance. (Fdim) (E major) (Fdim)
(D major) They'd (B minor) been sent to (D major) every place (G major) where
I really didn't have a chance. (D major) (A major) (D major)
They fed (E major) me cold (A major) cornbread and
(G major) whipped me (D major) in a van. (A flatdim) (B flat major)
(D major) I (A major) wasn't treated like human,
(D major) I had (G major) num (B flat major) bers (D major) for my name. (G minor) (D major)
I wasn't treated like (B flat major) human,
(D major) I (G major) had number (B flat major) s for (D major) my name. (A major)
(D major) Do you realize that I wrecked (A major) my life,
now every (G major) body seem (D major) s the same? (B minor) (B flat major) (D major)
(A major) I did el (D major) even months, oh yes,
in (G major) one dark day. (D major) (B minor) (D major)
I got a break (G major) in dead (D major) 11 months, oh yes, (G major)
(B flat major) in (D major) one job day. (A major) (D major)
Remember, if you ever do (A major) wrong,
you simply (G major) got that (B flat major) (D major) debt to pay.
(B minor) (A major) (D major)
Prison Gate Blues
Roosevelt Sykes
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