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I'm a guard in the great iron prison, at least I was 'till now. |
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It was never a picnic social, never a date. |
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They never come in laughing and you know they never taught them how |
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It was damn hard work, and you wouldn't believe the pay. |
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It was early in the morning, Lord, I wasn't but a half awake, |
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When the Cons went nuts, and took us by surprise. |
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I never was one for shaking, but I found it hard to stand, |
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With a six-inch blade held right between my eyes. |
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We could hear a siren blowing, somebody yelled in pain. |
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Then it got so quiet, you could hear a bird walk by. |
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They all had masks on their faces, and they spoke with a voice of Cain |
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"If they come in shooting, then you know you're bound to die. |
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If they come in shooting, then you know you're bound to die." |
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I turned to a buddy named Willie, I said "Willie It'll be all right, |
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If they meant to kill us we'd be half way down to Hell. |
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See, they high-jacked a plane in the dessert, and the government screamed and cries, |
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But to save some lives, they opened up a prison cell". |
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So the days kept coming and going, tension was getting high. |
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But I wasn't too worried, I figured I knew the score. |
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I knew they were talking to someone, I knew they were willing to try. |
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So I figured my freedom was a matter of a day or two more. |
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But, Jesus, early this morning, the whirlybird dropped the gas, |
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It made me puke and it brought me to my knees. |
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The bullets came like hail-stones, I heard the first ones pass, |
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Then they cut down Willie, and they got Jim Kelly and me. |
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They cut down Willie, and they got Jim Kelly and me. |
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They come in yelling curses, like they were caught in the River Rhine |
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Shot down every God damned thing they saw. |
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And while I lay they wounded, I took another one in my spine, |
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Poor Jim Kelly took another one in his jaw. |
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Oh, Poor Jim Kelly took another one in his jaw. |
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They say we had our throats cut, by a band of desperate men, |
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Say they saved as many of us as they could. |
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Well the governor he should now it, but I think I'll say it again |
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That the governor cut my throat and he cut it good. |
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Let them take the governor, hold him for a couple of days. |
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See who goes in shooting to set him free. |
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Hell they'll open every jail in the country, they'd send them on their way |
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They'd never do to him what the governor done to me. |
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They'd never do to him what the governor done to me. |