Prison to Heaven chords by
The Avett Brothers

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Key: D major

Intro 1

Verse 1
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Swing
G G 
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It's a hard decision
Am I gonna leave this prison
If they tell me one more time
To get in line
D D 
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I'm gonna break away

Verse 2
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But I'm sure
G G 
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That every single prison guard
That walks around this prison yard
Is gonna have a shot at me
D D 
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If he sees me running for the gate

Verse 3
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G G 
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I'd be better off dead
Full of the lead
Rather than to lay one more day
Let my mind and my body rot away
D D 
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In this awful place

Verse 4
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G G 
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I'd be floating way up so high
Looking down at all my buddies
Saying "You chumps, you suckers
I hope one day you can find
D D 
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the guts to escape"

Verse 5
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Well you might say
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"How come you're so sure
Heaven's where you're going?
You ain't exactly been showing
the ways of an angel"
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Glory bound

Verse 6
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G G 
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I must admit you got a point
But I got a feeling
The ceiling ain't so far
And Yahweh just may
want a couple words
D D 
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With yours truly

Verse 7
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A A 
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So I'll be walking right up to
those big pearly gates
G G 
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Saying "Hey Saint Peter,
D D 
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ol' buddy, ol' pal
How's the family, how's work,
how's the kids
What do you say?
How's about cracking those gates?
A A 
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And letting a fine upstanding fellow,
G G 
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like myself
D D 
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Join the club"

Verse 8
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And he might say
G G 
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"Ah, Mr. Avett you can save it
I ain't gonna be buying any of that lying
Jive, hustling, bald-faced, fake,
fake, conman nonsense
That you used to get by with
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Down there on Earth"

Verse 9
D D 
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And I'll say
"Come on
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Surely you and God of all people oughta know
I was innocent of those crimes
I told you so,
every night by myself in that cell
Surrounded by nothing but
D D 
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gray and quiet"

Verse 10
D D 
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Well dear God
G G 
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Maybe I should just be talking
straight to you
The truth is I lost my way some
D D 
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where along the way
G G 
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And if you got a minute,
would you spend it with a sinner
Just long enough to give me
some directions home
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