The Hostage chords by
Tom Paxton

N/A

Key: G minor•

Verse 1
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THE HOSTAGE Tom Paxton
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Gm Gm 3
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Gm Gm 3
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I'm a guard in the great iron prison,
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at least I was 'till now.
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It was never a picnic social,
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never a date.
They never come in laughing and you
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know they never taught them how
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It was damn hard work,
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and you wouldn't believe the pay.

Verse 2
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It was early in the morning, Lord,
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I wasn't but a half awake,
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When the Cons went nuts,
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and took us by sur prise.
I never was one for shaking,
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Gm Gm 3
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but I found it hard to stand,
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With a six- inch blade held right
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between my eyes.

Verse 3
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We could hear a siren blowing,
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somebody yelled in pain.
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Then it got so quiet,
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you could hear a bird walk by.
They all had masks on their faces,
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and they spoke with a voice of Cain
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"If they come in shooting,
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then you know you're bound to die.
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If they come in shooting,
then you know you're bound to die."
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Verse 4
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I turned to a buddy named Willie,
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I said "Willie It'll be all right,
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If they meant to kill us we'd be
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half way down to  Hell.
See, they high- jacked a plane in the dessert,
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and the government screamed and cries,
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But to save some lives,
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they opened up a prison cell".

Verse 5
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So the days kept coming and going,
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ten sion was getting high.
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But I wasn't too worried,
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I figured I knew the score.
I knew they were talking to someone,
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I knew they were willing to try.
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So I figured my freedom was
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a matter of a day or two more.

Verse 6
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But, Jesus, early this morning,
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Gm Gm 3
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the whirlybird dropped the gas,
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It made me puke and it brought
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me to my knees.
The bullets came like hail- stones,
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I heard the first ones pass,
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Then they cut down Wil lie,
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and they got Jim Kelly and me.
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They cut down Willie,
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and they got Jim Kelly and me.

Verse 7
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They come in  yelling curses,
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like they were caught in the River Rhine
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Shot down every God damned
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thing they saw.
And while I lay they wounded,
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Gm Gm 3
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I took another one in my spine,
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Gm Gm 3
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Poor Jim Kelly took another one in his jaw.
Oh, Poor Jim Kelly took another

Verse 8
one in his jaw.
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They say we had our throats cut,
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by a band of desperate men,
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Say they saved as many of
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us as they could.
Well the governor he should now it,
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but I think I'll say it again
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That the gov ernor cut my
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throat and he cut it good.

Verse 9
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Let them take the governor,
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hold him for a couple of days.
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See who goes in shooting to set him free.
Hell they'll open every jail in the country,
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they'd send them on their way
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They'd never do  to him what
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the governor done to me.
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They'd never do  to him what the governor