The Ballad Of Frisco Bay chords by Johnny Paycheck

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Verse 1
C 
 (C major) I'm here in the Bay
F 
C 
of  (F major) Frisco in prison  (C major) 
F 
No one's ever escaped  (F major) from here,
G 
they say  (G major) 
F 
Bb 
The  (F major) water's deep and cold,  (B flat major) 
C 
and the shark (C major) s'll get you
But you're looking at a guy
F 
E 
G 
C 
who's  (F major) willing to die for  (E major) a  (G major) try at Frisco  (C major) Bay
F 
C 
Life in a day is  (F major) what the judge gave  (C major) me
So it really don't matter
F 
E 
F# 
G 
if  (F major) I live  (E major) or  (F sharp major) die  (G major) 
F 
Bb 
I've  (F major) got a wife and baby  (B flat major) 
C 
who's nev (C major) er gonna see me
Bb 
A 
Bb 
B 
G 
If I  (B flat major) don't give the  (A major) Frisco Bay  (B flat major) a  (B major) try  (G major) 
C 
They don't  (C major) have walls here,
F 
or  (F major) man -eatin' dogs to
C 
B 
C 
stop  (C major) me  (B major)  (C major) 
Freedom's so close,
F 
E 
G 
and  (F major) yet so far  (E major) away  (G major) 
E 
C 
As I  (E major) jump in the bay, the water's  (C major) cold
A 
Bb 
C 
 (A major) The  (B flat major) current's  (C major) got me
And though I fight real hard
F 
E 
I'm  (F major) getting tired  (E major) 
B 
G 
C 
 (B major) And I'm  (G major) dying in Frisco Bay  (C major) 
F 
I'm  (F major) dying in Frisco Bay
C 
To save  (C major) her from shame
F 
She killed  (F major) a man
And for the baby's sake
E 
B 
G 
I  (E major) took  (B major)  (G major) the blame
C 
As things  (C major) grow dim,
F 
C 
 (F major) I  wonder if it was  (C major) worth it all
F 
To fight so hard to stand  (F major) 
G 
and then have  (G major) to fall
E 
And when they  (E major) tell my wife,
A 
C 
 (A major) there's one thing  (C major) she'll have to say
We had a good plan,
F 
E 
but she  (F major) lost a  (E major) good man
F# 
G 
C 
When I tried  (F sharp major) to swim  (G major) to Frisco  (C major) Bay