Please Don't Let Me Out

Johnny Cash

Tom: G

(intro) C G G D G

     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,
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    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!

( C G G D G )

       G                                           C                 G
    I had to learn to get along without a lot of things,
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    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,
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    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!