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Why Do You Punish Me by Johnny Cash

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WHY DO YOU PUNISH ME

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Verse:
G                         C      G
Why do you punish me for loving you?
                D                       G
You're counting my mistakes, how about yours
            C       G      C           G
Why do you sentence me, tonight?s of tears?
            D
Convicting all these dreams,
                             G
I've dreamed for all these years

Chorus:
     C                                  G
My heart cries out behind these prison bars
              D                                G
It pleads to you for your true love to set it free
            C     G       C      G
Why do you punish me is love a crime?
             D                                   G
If so I'll spend the lifetime, loving, serving time

Verse:
     C                                  G
My heart cries out behind these prison bars
              D                                G
It pleads to you for your true love to set it free
            C     G       C      G
Why do you punish me is love a crime?
             D                                   G