** Capo on 1st fret ** 
  
INTRO: A D A D 
 A                                        F#m  
Break it to them gently when you tell my mom and dad  
            Bm                                                     E  
When you see my baby sister, be as kind as you can  
A                                          F#m  
Break it to my grandma, said that boy?s wild and bad 
 Bm  
Break it to them gently when you tell ?em  
   E                                         A  
That I won?t be coming home again 
D                                                    A  
Cause I?m runnin? with a gun and it isn?t any fun as a fugitive  
D                                          A  
Fightin? for my life and I don?t know if I?ll make it alone  
D                                              A  
Runnin? with a gun and it isn?t any fun as a fugitive  
F#m                               A  
God I wanna go home, lord I wish I was home 
D A D  
A                                               F#m  
When you see my lady with the twinkle in her eyes  
                  Bm                                  E  
Tell it to her softly and hold her if she cries  
                  A                                    F#m  
Tell her that I love her and I will till the day I die  
         Bm  
Tell it to her gently when you tell her  
    E                                          A  
That I won?t be coming home again 
E                                    A  
I got in too deep with strangers  
        E                                 A  
Thinkin? they could help me find my way  
   D                                       A  
Nobody warned me of the dangers  
       F#m                   Bm                                          E  
And it?s always the young and foolish that have to pay 
 
A                                                       F#m  
So break it to them gently when you tell my mom and dad  
              Bm                                            E  
Thank them for the good years and all the lovin? that I had  
        A                                      F#m  
Break it to my grandma who said the boy is wild and bad  
         Bm  
Break it to them gently when you tell them  
   E                             A  
That I won?t be coming home again 
D                                            A  
I?m runnin? with a gun and it isn?t any fun as a fugitive  
D                                            A  
Fightin? for my life and I don?t know if I?ll make it alone  
D                                           A  
Runnin? with a gun and it isn?t any fun as a fugitive  
       F#m                                  A  
Lord I wanna go home, lord I wanna go home 
D  
You gotta break it to them gently  
A  
Break it to them gently  
D  
You gotta break it to them gently  
A  
Gotta really try to roll ?em  
D  
You gotta break it to them gently  
A  
Gotta really try to sooth them  
D  
Gotta really try to sooth them  
A  
Gotta really try to roll them  
D  
You gotta roll it to my mother  
A  
Gotta roll it to my grandma, gotta roll the old lady  
D  
Roll it to my mother  
A  
Roll it to my mother and roll the old lady  
D  
Roll it to my grandma  
 
 
A  
She?s damn near eighty, roll the old lady  
D  
Roll it to my mother  
A  
Roll it to my mother, gotta roll the old lady  
D  
Roll it to my mother  
A  
My sister and my mother and roll the old lady  
D  
Roll it to my grandma  
A  
She?s damn near eighty, roll the old lady...