Key: F major•
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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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
and we put them in our cells
out to the bullpen
and there were four men
standing there
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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an d he said,
How will I get it in there to you?
I'd like to do some songs
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for you that I wrote.
And later, when I was on death row,
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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when a choir from off the street
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And I heard him, I asked the singer,
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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 me back on the
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song I used to hear
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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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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF C Bb Dm Gm
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