The Wall

C
Well, there's lots of strange men in
 cell-block ten,
                          G
but the strangest of them all
      F                     C
was a pal of mine who would spend 
his time
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just staring at the wall, staring
         C
 at the wall.

[Verse 2]
C
In his hand was a note that his gal 
had wrote,
                               G
which proves that crime don't pay
    F                      C
the very same gal that h'd robbed 
and stole for,
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naming her wedding day, naming 
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her wedding day.

[Chorus]
      F                     C
As he looked at the wall so strong 
and tall,
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I heard him softly curse, "nobody at
 all
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has ever made that wall, but I'm 
               C
gonna be the first,
F                C
I'm gonna be the first."

[Verse 3]
C
Well the Warden walked by, said "Son
 don't try,
                          G
cause I'd hate to see you fall
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cause there ain't no doubt we're 
       C
gonna carry you out
      Am               C          
if you ever touch that wall, if 
  F               C
you ever touch that wall."

[Verse 4]
C
But a year has gone by since he made
 his try;
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                 G
I can still recall
   F                      C
how hard he tried and the way he 
died,
       Am               C        
but he never topped the wall, he 
F                C
never topped the wall.

[Chorus]
F                   C
Many a man who has shook this can,
    F               C
and I know a man who tried.
    F                      C
The newspapers called it a jailbreak
 plan,
    Am                C    F     
but I know it was suicide; I know
                C
 that it was suicide.


(Song goes to "Cotton Mouth River")

[Verse 1]
       C                         
Well I know that I shouldn't have 
Am
done it
  F        G          C
I know it just wasn't right
Cause they got me backed up to the 
G           Am
Cottonmouth river
      F           G       C
and I can't cross late at night.

[Chorus]
              G                    
Yeah, there's lots of stories told 
         C
about the Cottonmouth river,
F                        G
 they tell them time and again,
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 about the men who tried to cross 
     G        Am
that river by moonlight
F           G           C
 never were heard from again.

[Verse 2]
     C                        Am
Well if I had my life to live over,
     F         G         C
I'd've gone to work that day
instead of going into town and 
 G           Am
shooting him down
       F            G         C
for a thing I never heard him say.

[Chorus]
              G                    
Yeah, there's lots of stories told 
          C
about the Cottonmouth river,
F                       G
they tell them time and again,
          C                     
about the men who tried to cross 
      G        Am
that river by moonlight
F          G          C
never were heard from again.

[Verse 3]
      C                            
Well, I'd just made it through the 
Am
canebreak
    F        G          C
and got one foot in the mud.
I can hear the hounds a-bayin' but 
    G               Am
the snake around my ankle's
        F              G       C
telling me my running days are done.

[Chorus]
              G                    
Yeah, there's lots of stories told 
          C
about the Cottonmouth river,
F                       G
they tell them time and again,
          C                     
about the men who tried to cross 
       G        Am
that river by moonlight
F          G          C
never were heard from again.