The Avett Brothers – Prison To Heaven (Guitar Intro)

Capo 7
Key
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Chords

[Intro]
e|---------------3----3----|
B|--2/3\2\1p0----3--3------|
G|--3/4\3\2p0----0---------| x4
D|------------0--0---------|
A|---------------2---------|
E|---------------3------3--|
[Verse 1]
G        C
Swaying, it's a hard decision, am I gonna leave this prison

                                                              G
If they tell me one more time to get in line, I'm gonna breakaway

    G             C
But I'm sure that every single prison guard that walks around this prison yard

                                                         G
Is gonna have a shot at me if he sees me running for the gate
[Verse 2]
       C
I'd be better off dead, full of lead, rather than delay one more day

                                                   G
Letting my mind and my body rot away in this awful place

       C
I'd be floating way up so high looking down
At all my buddies saying, “You chumps, you suckers
                                          G
I hope one day you can find the guts to escape”
[Verse 3]
          G           C
Well, you might say, “How come you so sure heaven's where you're going?

                                                            G
You ain't exactly been showin' the ways of an angel, glory bound”

         C
I must admit you got a point, but I got a feeling the ceiling ain't so far

                                                   G
And Yahweh just may want a couple words with yours truly
[Bridge]
           D                                                    C
So I'll be walking right up to those big pearly gates, saying, “Hey Saint Peter, ol' Buddy, ol' pal

          G
How's the family, how's work, how's the kids?
What do you say, how's about crackin' those gates?
              D7                             C            G
And lettin' a fine upstanding fellow like myself join the club?”
[Verse 4]
       G           C
And he might say, “Ah, Mr. Avett, you can save it, I ain't gonna be buying any of that lyin’, jive, hustlin'
Boldfaced, fake conman nonsense that you used to get by with
              G
Down there on Earth

              G         C
And I'll say, “Come on, surely you and God of all people ought to know
I was innocent of those crimes, I told you so Every night by myself in that cell
                                    G
Surrounded by nothing but grey and quiet”
[Outro]
      G         C
Well, dear God, maybe I should just be talking straight to you

                                               G
The truth is I lost my way somewhere along the way

    C
And if you got a minute would you spend it with a sinner?

                                            G
Just long enough to give me some directions home