G D A G D (X2)

G           D
Back in 1953
                            A
We stole a car old Merle And Me
                    G                D    G
Never thinking we'd be put in jail.
                                  D
You might say that we were green 
                            A 
I was barely seventeen
                   G              D
When they put those bars between old Merle And Me.
 
G                                  D
Late one night we hit the wall
                          A
Twenty feet we had to fall
                         G                       D
To the ground where we could craw into the weeds.
G                                D
Waiting for that shotgun blast
                                 A
Never thinking we could last
               G                      D
We sure had to grow up fast, old Merle And Me.

[Chorus]
G                                 D
We were young and crazy then
                          A
It was easy to pretend
               G                        D
Acting like we'd never been in reform school.
G                         D
Looking danger in the eye
                                  A
Walking with our heads held high
             G                D
We were not afraid to die, old Merle And Me.

G D A G D

G                            D
We were living by the gun
                            A
Never caring what wed done
                            G       D
Swearing it was all just fun and games you know.
G                          D
We would die and go to hell
                                  A
Before we broke our vow to tell

                 G                      D
How we escaped that prison cell, old Merle And Me.
 
G                                 D
How was Merle or Me to know 
                                  A
We would end up on death row
                G                     D
Waiting for our turn in the electric chair.
G                                  D
Shot down in a grocery store
                          A
We got busted at the door
               G                   D
Praying wasn't easy for, old Merle And Me.

[Chorus]
G                                 D
We were young and crazy then
                          A
It was easy to pretend
               G                        D
Acting like we'd never been in reform school.
G                         D
Looking danger in the eye
                                  A
Walking with our heads held high
             G                D
We were not afraid to die, old Merle And Me.