Joan Baez – Walls Of Red Wing (Guitar)

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From the album "Any day now" (1968), consisting of covers of Bob Dylan's songs. The strumming pattern can also be made as a folk 3/4 time signature strumming, such as pinching the "dominant" guitar string for the down arrow, and pinching chords 4+5+6 at the same time for the up arrows. [Intro] G D A D [Verse 1]
         D
Oh, the age of the inmates

  G              D
I remember quite freely:
No younger than twelve,
   E              A
No older 'n seventeen.

D
Thrown in like bandits

    G             D
And cast off like criminals,

G          D
Inside the walls,

    A            D
The walls of Red Wing.
[Verse 2]
         D
From the dirty old mess hall

    G            D
You march to the brick wall,
Too weary to talk
        E        A
And too tired to sing.

         D
Oh, it's all afternoon

    G             D
You remember your home town,

G          D
Inside the walls,

    A            D
The walls of Red Wing.
[Verse 3]
        D
Oh, the gates are cast iron

        G                D
And the walls are barbed wire.
Stay far from the fence
         E           A
With the 'lectricity sting.

         D
And age keep your head down

    G            D
And stay in your number,

G          D
Inside the walls,

    A            D
The walls of Red Wing.
[Verse 4]
         D
Oh, it's fare thee well

       G           D
To the deep hollow dungeon,
Farewell to the boardwalk
     E                A
That takes you to the screen.

             D
Farewell to the minutes

     G            D
They threaten you with it,

G          D
Inside the walls,

    A            D
The walls of Red Wing.
G D A D [Outro]
       D
As the rain rattled heavy

       G          D
On the bunk house shingles,
And the sounds in the night,
     E            A
They made my ears ring.

         D
Well the keys of the guards

            G           D
Clicked the tune of the morning,

G          D
Inside the walls,

    A            D
The walls of Red Wing.

    D
Oh, some of us will wind up

   G         D
In St. Cloud Prison,
And some of us will will go on
      E           A
To be lawyers and things,

    D
And some of us will wind up

    G               D
And meet you on your crossroads,

G          D
From Inside the walls,

    A            D
The walls of Red Wing.