Womens Prison chords by The White Stripes

| Tab Definitions:
|  A: x02220
| s4: x02230 (Asus4)
|  D: xx0232
|  E: 022100
| Bb: 688766
| Eb: x68886
  F: x|8|10|10|10|8
|Bb5: x133xx
|Db5: x466xx
|  p: Pull ogf
|  x: Muted note

This song is made difficult by the half-step key change after the fourth verse. The switch from open
chords to bar chords is not very appealing, so it may sound better to keep the song in A major throughout.

INTRO:
      /A
e|-------0---0-0-0-----------0---0--0---------0-----------0---------0---0--0
B|-------2---3-3-3p2---------2---3--2---------2---3-3-3p2-----------2---3--2
G|-x-x---2-------------x-x---2----------x-x---2---------------x-x---2---2--2
D|-x-x---2-------------x-x---2----------x-x---2---------------x-x---2---2--2
A|-x-x---0-------------x-x---0----------x-x---0---------------x-x---0---0--0
E|-----3-------------------3----------------3---------------------3---------
VERSE 1:
A
I'm in a women's prison
     A
With bars all around
  E
I caught my darlin' cheatin'
       A
That's when I shot him down

I caught him in a honky-tonk
       A
With a girl I used to know
    E
The door to my cell is open wide
      A
And a voice cries out, "Oh, no!"

VERSE 2:
    A
The judge says I'm guilty
   A
My sentence is to die
  E
I know I've been forgiven
        A
But the price of love is high

CHORUS:
          D
There's a crowd outside screamin',
                   A
"Let that murderer die"
     D
But above all their voices
                   E
I can hear my mama cry

VERSE 3:
    A
I'm sittin' here on death row
     A
And, Lord, I've lost my mind
    E
For love I've killed my darlin'
        A
And for love I'll lose my life

VERSE 4:
      Bb
I can hear the warden coming
         Bb
From the clinging of his keys
    F
But when they come to get me
                Bb
They'll have to drag me off my knees

The door to my cell swings open
     Bb
It's time for me to go
    F
The priest is readin' my last rights
          Bb
He says, "Dyin's part of livin', you know"

CHORUS:
          Eb
There's a crowd outside screamin',
                   Bb
"Let that murderer fry"
     Eb
But above all their voices
                     Bb
You can hear my mama cry

VERSE 5:
Bb
Now they've strapped me in the chair
    Eb
And covered up my eyes
        F
And the last voice I hear on Earth
             Bb
Is my mama's cry

"Amazing Grace how sweet the sound

That saved a wretch like me

I once was lost, but now am found

Was blind, but now I see"

Played 8x:
Db5