The Walls Of A Prison

Johnny Cash - The Walls Of A Prison
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[Intro]
Eb    Cm    Fm                        Eb
(Spoken)    It's not always the land,   that's the hardest and bitterist
              Ab                                           Eb
It's the man, who has the hard bitter attitude towards his fellow man, or toward the land
            Eb                                         Cm
Such is the case, that you will find in this following song
              Fm                                 Eb                 Ab    Eb Bb Eb
About a man's attitude toward his fellow man and towards this land

      |N.C.  A | D    | A7   | D   | A   | D   | G   | D   A | D
(Key Change)

[Verse]
  D               A7          D             A
I walked into the big yard to feel the warm sunshine
  D           G                D       A
A ninety-nine year man stepped over to me
   D         A7           D         A
He offered a smoke and he said as I rolled it
   D          G              A          D
To-morrow I'm goin' to break out and go free

[Chorus]
     D                          G
They watch us by sunlight, they watch us by spotlight
    D                  E7        A
But I know a way for a man to go free
     D                  G
Down under my cell, I'm diggin' a tunnel
    D                      A          D
The walls of a prison will never hold me

| D    | A7   | D   | A   | D   | G   | D   A | D

[Verse]
  D             A7          D           A
I told him that I'd have no part of his scheming
   D             G         D            A
My time would be over, one year from to-day
    D                A7           D            A
His eyes blazed with fire, and he looked right through me
D           G         A           D
Bitter, but broken, a-gain he did say

[Chorus]
     D                          G
They watch us by sunlight, they watch us by spotlight
    D                  E7        A
But I know a way for a man to go free
     D                  G
Down under my cell, I'm diggin' a tunnel
    D                      A          D
The walls of a prison will never hold me

| D    | A7   | D   | A   | D   | G   | D   A | D

[Verse]
     D          A7             D           A
Next morning at breakfast, the old man was missing
        D             G           D         A
Then we all heard the rifles high up on the wall
     D                A7           D           A
He'd gone through the tunnel, just like he had promised
         D           G            A            D
And they said he was crying, when they saw him fall

[Chorus]
     D                          G
They watch us by sunlight, they watch us by spotlight
    D                  E7        A
But I know a way for a man to go free
     D                  G
Down under my cell, I'm diggin' a tunnel
    D                      A          D   | D   | G   | D   A | D
The walls of a prison will never hold me