Sing Me Back Home chords by David Allan Coe
Verse 1
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Oh, the warden led a prisoner
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down the hallway to his doom
And I stood up to say goodbye
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like all the rest
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When I heard him ask the warden
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if they'd let me sing a song
Could I sing him one
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before he meets his death?
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Sing me back home the
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song I used to hear
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Make my old memories come alive
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Take me away and turn back the year
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Send me back home before I die
You know, I remember we were playing cards for cigarettes that day when
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the guard came in and said that some people wanted to sing for us.
So we picked up our blanket
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an d cigarettes
and we put them in our cells
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and then we walked back
out to the bullpen
and there were four men
standing there
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and one of them had a guitar in his hand
and they began to sing,
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Amazing Grace,
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how sweet the sound.
Well when they got through
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I said, excuse me sir,
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could I play your guitar
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and he said,
How will I get it in there to you?
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And I said, just hold it up to the bars.
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I'll stick my hands through the bars.
I'd like to do some songs
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for you that I wrote.
And later, when I was on death row,
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one of the convicts in El
Block had a radio,
and he turned it up,
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and it kind of reminded me of that day.
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I recall last Sunday morning
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when a choir from off the street
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Came in to sing a few old gospel songs
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And I heard him, I asked the singer,
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Could I play your guitar please?
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I'd like to do you one,
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I wrote about my heart
And then I heard Merle Haggard
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sing for the first time
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Sing me back on the
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song I used to hear
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Make my old memories come alive
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Take me away,
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and turn back the years
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Sing me back home before I go
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Send me back home, before I go
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Sing Me Back Home
David Allan Coe
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