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  G                                 C                 G 
    I've been in jail eleven years and parole has just come through, 
                                                     D 
    the gates will soon swing open wide but I'm not going through. 
      C                         G 
    Jail's the only home I know or care to know about, 
                                   D                G      G7 
    please let me stay where I belong, please don't let me out.! 

C                                 G 
How could I tell those friends of mine they've seen the last of me, 
                                        D 
can't I make you understand I never can be free ? 
       C                             G 
'Cause that's a big unfriendly world and I don't know the route 
                               D               G 
that leads to where I may belong, please don't let me out! 

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      G                         C             G 
    I had to learn to get along without a lot of things, 
                                                          D 
    and I had to learn to live with the loneliness confinement brings. 
          C                                G 
    And I learnt to take no mail from home or whatever came about, 
                                   D                G      G7 
    now I'm dug in and I'm happy here, please don't let me out! 

C                                 G 
How could I tell those friends of mine they've seen the last of me, 
                                        D 
can't I make you understand I never can be free ? 
       C                             G 
'Cause that's a big unfriendly world and I don't know the route 
                               D               G          G7 
that leads to where I may belong, please don't let me out! 
     C                             G 
Yes, that's a big unfriendly world and I don't know the route 
                               D         D7    G 
that leads to where I may belong, please don't let me out! 

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