Intro
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G                                        D     
I've been in this prison twenty years or more
 D                      G
I shot my woman with a 44
 G                               C
I'll be right here till my dyin day
C          G        D        G
I got 99 years and one dark day

G                                     D
Well the food is bad and the beds are hard
D                                      G
I spend all day breakin' rocks in the yard
G                                           C
Well there ain't no change, gonna stay that way
C         G         D         G
I got 99 years and one dark day

G                                D
Ain't no singer that can sing a song
D                                 G
Ain't no one saying that I ain't wrong
G                                   C
His mind's made up, gonna stay that way
C        G          D        G
I got 99 years and one dark day

G                                            D
I never learned to read, I never learned to write
D                             G
My whole life's been one big fight
G                                  C
I never heard about the righteous way
C         G         D       G
I got 99 years and one dark day

G                            D
I remember a time many years ago
D                      G
I shot my woman with a 44
G                                C
I'll be right here till my dyin' day
C        G          D       G
I got 99 years and one dark day
G                   D        G
I got 99 years and one dark day