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G C G
I've been in jail eleven years and parole has just come through,
D
the gates will soon swing open wide but I'm not going through.
C G
Jail's the only home I know or care to know about,
D G G7
please let me stay where I belong, please don't let me out.!
C G
How could I tell those friends of mine they've seen the last of me,
D
can't I make you understand I never can be free ?
C G
'Cause that's a big unfriendly world and I don't know the route
D G
that leads to where I may belong, please don't let me out!
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G C G
I had to learn to get along without a lot of things,
D
and I had to learn to live with the loneliness confinement brings.
C G
And I learnt to take no mail from home or whatever came about,
D G G7
now I'm dug in and I'm happy here, please don't let me out!
C G
How could I tell those friends of mine they've seen the last of me,
D
can't I make you understand I never can be free ?
C G
'Cause that's a big unfriendly world and I don't know the route
D G G7
that leads to where I may belong, please don't let me out!
C G
Yes, that's a big unfriendly world and I don't know the route
D D7 G
that leads to where I may belong, please don't let me out!
