Key: F major
Verse 1
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C
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Dbdim
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Abdim
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I got five years in the state penitentiary, in 1938.
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I got five years in the state penitentiary.
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Oh, boy, the 1938
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My lawyer tried to beat the ref
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But the judge said it was
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too late
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I began to feel sad
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When those prison gates slammed
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I began to feel sad when I heard those pris
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on gates slam I can't see the one I love, oh
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No, it doesn't look the way I
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am.
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They'd been sent to every place where I
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didn't have a chance.
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They'd been sent to every place where
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I really didn't have a chance.
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They fed me cold cornbread and
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whipped me in a van.
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I wasn't treated like human,
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I had num bers for my name.
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I had numbers for my name.
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Do you realize that I wrecked my life,
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now everybody seems the same?
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I did eleven months, oh yes,
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in one dark day.
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I got a break in dead 11 months, oh yes,
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in one job day.
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you simply got that debt to pay.
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