Prison to Heaven chords by The Avett Brothers

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Intro 1

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

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Verse 2

But I'm sure

That every single prison guard

That walks around this prison yard

Is gonna have a shot at me

If he sees me running for the gate

Verse 3
D 
G 
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 
In this awful place

Verse 4
D 
G 
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 
the guts to escape"

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

Verse 6
D 
G 
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 
With yours truly

Verse 7
D 
A 
So I'll be walking right up to
those big pearly gates
G 
Saying "Hey Saint Peter,
D 
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 
And letting a fine upstanding fellow,
G 
like myself
D 
Join the club"

Verse 8
D 
And he might say
G 
"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
D 
Down there on Earth"

Verse 9
D 
And I'll say
"Come on
G 
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 
gray and quiet"

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