Chords with lyrics
🎸 Intro:
D MajorD G+G A augmentedA D MajorD
D MajorD
🎸 Verse 1:
D MajorD
Just last week I went to prison
G+G
To see some boys down on death row
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Brought some guitars and my buddies
G+G D MajorD
To play some songs I thought they'd know
I could feel myself trembling
G+G
When I shook one of their hands
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I thought that he would be a monster
G+G D MajorD
Turns out he's a whole lot like I am
🎸 Chorus:
G+G
Yeah, we talked hunting, we talked fishing
D MajorD
Like I do with boys back home
B minorBm
How Jesus is the ticket
A augmentedA
And narrow is the road
G+G
About how all we need is forgiveness
D MajorD B minorBm
'Fore we see them streets of gold
D MajorD A augmentedA D MajorD
Yeah
I learned a lot 'bout livin' from them boys down on death row
🎸 Verse 2:
D MajorD
One of 'em name's was Johnny
G+G
Ain't touched the grass in thirty years
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Maybe I ain't supposed to feel sorry no
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But it 'bout brought me to tears
Then it hit me, we're all human
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Ain't always proud of what we done
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Everybody's days are numbered
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Only difference is, they all know which ones
🎸 Chorus:
G+G
Yeah, we talked hunting, we talked fishing
D MajorD
Like I do with boys back home
B minorBm
How Jesus is the ticket
A augmentedA
And narrow is the road
G+G
About how all we need is forgiveness
D MajorD B minorBm
'Fore we see them streets of gold
D MajorD A augmentedA D MajorD
Yeah
I learned a lot 'bout livin' from them boys down on death row
🎸 Instrumental:
B minorBm A augmentedA D MajorD
B minorBm A augmentedA D MajorD
B minorBm A augmentedA D MajorD
B minorBm A augmentedA D MajorD
🎸 Verse 3:
D MajorD
One of 'em sang, "Amazing Grace", how sweet the sound
With one hand raised and one foot chained to the ground
G+G D MajorD
Yeah, he sang it like he knew he'd just been found
G+G A augmentedA D MajorD
Yeah that next week, they laid him six feet down
🎸 Instrumental:
G+G D MajorD B minorBm A augmentedA
🎸 Chorus:
G+G D MajorD B minorBm
I can't say that he's in Heaven, who am I to judge his soul?
D MajorD A augmentedA B minorBm
But Jesus don't play favorites, sayin' a name that He don't know
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Yeah I learned that and then some, with them boys down on death row
🎸 Outro:
D MajorD A augmentedA D MajorD
I learned all that and then some, from the boys down on death row