Prisoner's Farewell chords by The Delmore Brothers

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Verse 1
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Sweetheart, a prisoner's last letter
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I have to send to you today
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But when you read these lines of sorrow
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My soul will then have passed away
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For at the dawn of day tomorrow,
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I then will pay for my mistake.
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God gave me courage for this message,
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I've realized my sin to reign.
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I'll let a deer in from a prisoner,
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don't shed a tear when I am gone.
I've troubled you too much already
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I hate to leave you all alone
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As if in dreams I see you smiling
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Your pretty eyes are like a song
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You warned me, darling, now I'm pining
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You knew that I was do ing wrong
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Outside the shadows now I'm falling
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They circle me, complete my life
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I'll soon be gone, and when I'm dying
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I'll think of you an d  pay the price
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I hear the guard outside my window,
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and on his rams he sleeps so slow.
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It seems he's trying me to comfort,
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it seems he hates to see me go.
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Please take this message to my mother
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And give her all my love and cheer
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This final message now I'm writing
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To the I'll always love so dear
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A letter, dear, and from a prisoner
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Don't shed a tear when I am gone
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I trouble you too much already,
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I hate to leave you all alone.