Key:
Introduction: C C C C C C
C
15 Years on the county line
C F
Enough to make a man nearly lose his mind
F C
Down in Arlington, Virginia where the law make us stay
C
Ball and chain never felt so real
C
Walls of stone fifty bars of steel
F C
When the warden gives me pardon darlin' I'll be coming home your way
F G C
And I wish you could have seen it when the good Lord spun me round
F G C
I should have known better than to think they could keep a good man down
G
So please don't you worry
G C
Please don't you ever come see me
C
Leaving out of Texas for that eastern sunrise
F C
Well now, I was in a bad way Lord but not to my surprise
C
Judge in a cornfield tryin' a man
C
They said let him hang in the white desert sand
F C
When the warden gives me pardon darlin' I'll be coming home your way
F G C
And I wish you could have seen it when the good Lord spun me round
F G C
I should have known better than to think they could keep a good man down
G
So please don't you worry
G C
Please don't you ever come see me
The guitar solo is rather weird. Sometimes my band just plays G but the chords go like this:
G F C G
N.C.
F G C
And I wish you could have seen it when the good Lord spun me round
F G C
I should have known better than to think they could keep a good man down
G
So please don't you worry
G N.C