A
Now, pretty baby
 E                       Bm   D
I'm running back home to you
A
Fresh out the slammer
   E
I know who my first call will be to
 D
(Fresh out the slammer, oh)

 A                            E
Another summer taking cover, rolling thunder
                 Bm     D
He don't understand me
 A                                  E
Splintered back in winter, silent dinners
                      Bm         D
Bitter he was with her in dreams
A
Gray and blue, and fights and tunnels
 E
Handcuffed to the spell I was under
Bm                    D
For just one hour of sunshine
 A
Years of labor, locks and ceilings
E
In the shade of how he was feeling
Bm                             D
But it's gonna be alright, I did my time

A
Now, pretty baby
     E                   Bm    D
I'm running back home to you
 A
Fresh out the slammer
   E                           Bm
I know who my first call will be to
 D
(Fresh out the slammer, oh)

A
Camera flashes, welcome bashes
E
Get the matches
               Bm           D
Toss the ashes off the ledge
          A
As I said in my letters
                E
Now that I know better
                      Bm         D
I will never lose my baby again
A
My friends tried, but I wouldn't hear it
E                           Bm
Watched me daily disappearing
                        D
For just one glimpse of his smile
A
All those nights you kept me goin'
E                                Bm
Swirled you into all of my poems
                               D
Now we're at the starting line, I did my time

A
Now, pretty baby
    E
I'm runnin'

A
To the house where you still wait up
                   D
And that porch light gleams (gleams)
A
To the one who says
                          D
I'm the girl of his American dreams
   A
And no matter what I've done

It wouldn't matter anyway
D
Ain't no way I'm gonna screw up
                              A
Now that I know what's at stake here
 A
At the park where we used to sit
           D
On children's swings
          A
Wearing imaginary rings
                Bm           D
But it's gonna be alright, I did my time