Please Mr Jailer chords by Wynona Carr

Chords with lyrics

Chorus:
 A#A#         F#F#     FF      A#A#
Please, Mr Jailer, won't you let my man go free
A#A#        F#F#     FF       A augmentedA
Please, Mr Jailer, won't you let my man go free


Verse 1:
 D#D#       A#A#    D#D#  A#A#
That night in October, 1953
 D#D#         A#A#     C#C#       FF
How could he be in 'Frisco, he was home with me?


Chorus:
 A#A#         F#F#    FF       A#A#
Please, Mr Jailer, won't you let my man go free

Verse 2:
D#D#        A#A#
You put him in a death cell
D#D#      A#A#
And then you changed your mind
D#D#       A#A#
Then when you reprieved him
C#C#      FF
You gave him 99


Chorus:
A#A#         F#F#    FF       A#A#
Please, Mr Jailer, won't you let my man go free

Yeah, yeah
A#A#         F#F#    FF       A#A#
Please, Mr Jailer, won't you let my man go free


Verse 3:
D#D#      A#A#
I know that no other
D#D#      A#A#
one will ever do
D#D#        A#A#
And I know the answer's
C#C#     FF
all up to you


Chorus:
A#A#         F#F#    FF      A#A#
Please, Mr Jailer, won't you let my man go free

Verse 4:
D#D#        A#A#
I've been down here so often
D#D#        A#A#
You don't even ask my name
D#D#        A#A#
And if you keep him all his life
C#C#      FF
I'll be here just the same


Chorus:
A#A#         F#F#    FF       A#A#
Please, won't you let my man go free

Yeah, yeah
A#A#         F#F#    FF       A#A#
Please, Mr Jailer, won't you let my man go free


Verse 5:
D#D#        A augmentedA
That night in October,
D#D#   A#A#
1953
D#D#        A augmentedA
How could he be in 'Frisco,
C#C#        FF
he was home with me?


Chorus:
A#A#         F#F#    FF      A#A#
Please, Mr Jailer, won't you let my man go free


Outro:
A#A#  D#D#
Go free
A#A#  D#D#
Go free
A#A#  D#D#
Go free
A#A#  D#D#
Go free
A#A#  D#D#
Go free
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