Intro 
G  D  C  G  (x2) 

verse 1 
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Well I was born in Bossier Parish, in Northern Louisian? 
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Just a few miles south of Fillmore where my daddy owned some land 
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And we were thick as a pair of thieves, my buddy Jack and me 
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Drinkin? beer and playin? football, fishin? on them creeks 


[Refrão]
       C                                   G 
Oh but now my life it seems like some old country song you know 
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Lord I just turned 21, and there?s no chance of parole 
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And I'm doin? life for murder, in this penitentiary 
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Just a young man in Angola, seen the last of bein? free 

Solo 
G  D  C  G 

verse 2 
   G                       D 
We graduated high school, back in ?98 
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Tried to live the clean life, but the clean life didn?t pay 
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Then a friend of a friend of a friend of ours had a way to make ends meet 
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And he gave us a crash course, in southern chemistry 



[Refrão]
       C                                   G 
Oh but now my life it seems like some old country song you know 
        D                              C            G 
Lord I just turned 21, and there?s no chance of parole 
        C                               G 
And I'm doin? life for murder, in this penitentiary 
       D                              C             G 
Just a young man in Angola, seen the last of bein? free 

Solo 
G  D  C  G 

verse 3 
    G                                 D 
And then one day it happened, and the wild men got the call 
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And Jackie he?d been talkin?, with the local law 
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They stuck him nearly fifty times and dumped him in the creek 
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When the sheriff?s found the body, they pointed their bloody hands at me 

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And I got a tattoo on my shoulder, I got a number on my chest 
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The tattoo just says ?Hot?, and that?s the place I love the best, yeah 

Outro 
G  D  C  G  (x3)