Chords for Billy Paul - I'm Just A Prisioner (1971)

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_ Attention!
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_ [Bb] The _ [G] _
following inmates, when names [F] are called, _ _ [F] will be transferred _ _ [D] due [F] to _ overcrowded [Gm] _
conditions.
_ [G] What am _ _ I doing _ here?
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_ _ _ I've been serving time for five long _ _ _ years.
_ [Gm] Got _ _ no _ _ trial in _ sight.
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This justice they all talk about, just ain't [G] right. _
[Bb] Has _ everybody _
_ _ _ [C] forgotten about me?
_ Will I [Eb] ever, _ _ ever, ever [D] be free? _ _ _ _
I'm [Gm] just a prisoner. _ _
_ _ _ [A] Just a prisoner.
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_ _ I _ _ _ thought a man was innocent until he's proven guilty. _ _
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Ain't been no jury to judge _ me. _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ How long must I pay for the wrong I've done?
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[F] _ _ _ I'm a victim of [D] circumstance, you _ see.
_ Has [Bb]
everybody _ _ _ _ [Bm] _
[C] forgotten about me? _
[Eb] Will I ever, will I ever see my [D] family? _ _
_ _ _ I'm [Gm] just a prisoner, oh _ Lord.
Just a prisoner, just a prisoner of [F] someone's rules.
[Eb] A wife in [Dm] my _ dreams.
[F] _ _
I [Bb] know they miss me.
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The baby, [Gm] she's five [Cm] and four.
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_ And she [Am] don't even know who her daddy [Dm] _
_ _ is. _ _
[G] _ _ The cell is [Bb] cold as hell.
_ You could never get [C] the use of the blood.
_ My bed [Bb] is hard as wood.
I gotta [D] fight, fight, fight to keep my [Bb]
manhood.
Seems like everybody, everybody, [C] everybody, everybody's forgotten about me.
[Dm] _ [Eb] Will I ever, _ ever be free?
[G] _
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My bed is cold [Bb] as hell.
_ [Gm] You could never get the [C] use of the smell.
[Gm] _ My bed is [Bb] hard as wood.
I gotta [D] fight, fight, fight to keep my [Gm] manhood. _
Just a prisoner, _ just a prisoner, just a prisoner.
I gotta fight to keep my manhood. _
_ _ [G] Lord, Lord, [Gm] Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, somebody hear me. _ _
_ _ Won't somebody help me?
Why won't they take this chain off me? _
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The cell is _ _ cold. _ _ _ _ _
And the bed is hard as rock.
_ [Db] _ _ _ [A] With electric locks [Gm] that says clock.
_ I [G] need my woman, need my woman, need my woman, need her, need her, need her.
_ [Gm] Got to fight to keep my manhood. _ _
[G] Lord, _ _ _ _ _ been incarcerated for five long years. _
You hear me, you hear me.
I've been incarcerated _ for five long _ years. _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Gm]
Waiting for my _ [G] trial. _
Where _ _ is _ the _ judge and [Dm] the jury?
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_ Lord, _ _ _ _ just my _ _ name.
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_ [Dm] _ _ _ [Gm] Lord, can't be no more. _ _
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_ [Dm] _ [Gm] Now they're talking about it, they're [Dm] talking about it, they're [G] talking about it. _ _ _ _
Vote for power and they might have to transfer [Gm] me. _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [Dm] _ [Gm] I'm from 25th and [G] Massachusetts, but I [D] know what I'm talking [Gm] about.
A whole lot of prisoners, [G] _
_ [Gm] _ a whole lot of prisoners, everybody.
[G] I want the world to hear me and I want the Lord to listen to [A] me.
[Gm] If you open my mouth, if I open [D] my mouth.
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_ I do, it's all a tale of good and bad. _ _ _
_ _ Yeah, _ _ _ deep red and white. _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [D] Red, [Bb]
red [Gm] and white. _ _
Lord, _ _ _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ [Gm] talk too much, you talk too much.
The guards in the [G] prison's gonna get [Gm] me. _ _ _
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_ [Gm] _ _ Yeah, [G] _
[Dm] yeah, [Gm] the guards in the prison's gonna get me. _
[Dm] _ _ _ [Gm] They _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ got [Gm] guns, _
_ _ _ [A] _ [G] .45's,
machine guns, [Am] _ [Gm] and heavy artillery.
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_ [D] _ _ _ [Gm] Making life a place for [G] cars [Bb] _
_ [Gm] _ and [G] old _ [Gm] _ _ rags and drums.
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