The Prisoners Song

Johnny Crash

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Now if I had wings like an angel

    D7                          G
Over these prison walls I would fly
And I'd fly to the arms of my 

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darling

    D7                      G
And there I'd be willing to die


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Now I wish I had someone to love me

    D7                   G
Someone to call me their own

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Oh I wish I had someone to live with

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'Cause I'm tired of living alone


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In my mind I have a grand ship on 

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the ocean

    D7                      G
All mounted with silver and gold
And before my poor darling would 

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suffer

     D7                         G
That ship would be anchored and sold


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I'll be carried to the new jail 

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tomorrow

  D7                           G
Leaving my little darling all alone
With the cold prison walls all 

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around me

    D7                     G
And my head on a pillow of stone


G                          C
Now if I had wings like an angel

    D7                          G
Over these prison walls I would fly
And I'd fly to the arms of my 

C
darling

    D7                      G
And there I'd be willing to die
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