Soul Of A Convict chords by
Porter Wagoner
Porter Wagoner

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Key: E major
Verse 1
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(Will he take the soul of a convict
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could I be one of those he choosed)
I was taught the Bible from childhood at
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my mother's knee I learned to pray
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I was taught of God and all his goodness
and the devil and his evil ways
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There's good in the bad and bad in the good and
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there's none that's free from sin
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But there's some questions
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I've wondered about
What happens to the men
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who die in the pen
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Just imagine yourself the judge God Almighty
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as you gaze over all these men
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When death takes its toll what becomes
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of the soul of the men who die in the pen
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Do you think of God that's true and just
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could look from his heavenly throne
And be pleased to see men placed in
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chains and stripes
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And tucked from their loved
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ones at home
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Worked until they're completely
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axhuasted and your soul cries out in vain
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Fed like a hog and treated like a dog and at night
to the bed you're chained
Worked from sunup to sundown
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through all kinds of weather
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And if you don't do the things just right
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you get introduced to the leather
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Now you see it's not the pain I mind so much
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as I'm stretched out on the floor
It's just the thought that I can't do my
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part that's what breaks my heart
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You see I'm just not
man enough anymore
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Oh there are a lotta other things I could tell
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you that you'd marvel at and say
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Why I didn't know in those modern times they treated
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men that way but they do
That's why I ask you do you think that God
could turn with a sneer and frown
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At the men who die in the pen do
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you think he'll turn us down
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I believe there's a heaven and a hell
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and in God I put my trust
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That's why I'm askin' these ques
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tions I believe he's true and just
And I just imagine he'll tell me as we meet
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at the golden stairs
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Hell's not just meant for some of
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the men who die in the pen
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But for some who have mistreated
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them there
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You see we're payin' for the mistakes
we made in our sins
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As we've had our troubles in life
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Because we're the underdogs of humanity
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and surely God won't make us pay twice
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I believe on that Day of Judgement he'll
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have this convict called in
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And he'll say it's true hell's not for you
you had your hell in the pen
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