Key: F
Introduction:
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Well, I'm goin' to a place where the tough guys go
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and come out even tougher.
G5 D5
A place where a man don't show his feelings,
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a place where a man don't cry.
G5
Well, they say I'm bein' punished
D5
and they say I can be reformed
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but some day I'll return.
G5 D5
Did they really think that this time it'd work,
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you knew all along it wouldn't.
G5 D5
Oh, I'm prison bound
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I did a crime one too many times.
G5 D5
It's on the outskirts of town by the railroad tracks
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where the country moon shines.
G5 D5
Oh, I'm prison bound
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Tell my girl I'll be back one day
G5 D5
Oh, I'm prison bound
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I may never know any other, any other
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way
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any other way
G5 D5
Well, they've taken away my freedom of expression or action
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Johnny says I'll walk the line
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with three hots and a cot and a lot of talk
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with lock-up concrete and steel.
G5 D5
Well, It's cold and it's clammy, man it's colder than a pimp's heart
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but I gotta do my time.
G5 D5
There's a lesson to be learned here but what a price to pay
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you know I may never learn.
G5 D5
Oh, I'm prison bound
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I did a crime one too many times.
G5 D5
It's on the outskirts of town by the railroad tracks
E5 D5 C5
where the country moon shines.
G5 D5
Oh, I'm prison bound
E5 D5 C5
Tell my girl I'll be back one day
G5 D5
Oh, I'm prison bound
E5 D5 C5
I may never know any other, any other
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way
C5 G5
any other way