Chords for Jim Croce - The Wall / Cottonmouth River

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Well, there's lots of strange men in cell block ten, but the strangest [Bb] of them all
was a pal of mine who would [Eb] spend his time just [Ab] staring [Cm] at the wall, _ _ _
[Bb] _ staring [Eb] at the wall.
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_ [Eb] _ _ In his hand was a note that his gal had wrote, which proves that [Ab] crime don't [Bb] pay.
_ _ Very same gal that [Eb] he robbed and stole for an amen her wedding [Cm] day, _ an amen her wedding [Eb] _
day.
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[Ab] As he looked at the wall so strong and tall, I heard him softly curse, _ _ _
nobody at all has ever made that wall, but _ I'm gonna be [Cm] the first, _ _ [Ab] I'm gonna be [Eb] the first. _ _
_ _ Well, the warden walked by and said, son, don't try, cause I'd hate to see [Bb] you fall. _
[Ab] Cause there ain't no doubt [Eb] we're gonna carry you out [Ab] if you ever touch [Cm] that wall, [Eb] if you [Ab] ever touch [Bb] that [Eb] wall.
_ _ _ _ But a year has gone by since he made his try, I can still [Bb]
recall _ _ [Ab] how hard he [Eb] tried and the way he died,
but he [Ab] never [Cm] topped the wall, _ _ [Ab] _ never [Eb] topped the wall. _ _ _
_ There's many a man who has shook this [Ab] can, and I know a [Eb] man who tried. _
[Ab] The newspapers [Eb] called it a jailbreak plan, but I [Ab] know that it was [Cm]
suicide, _ _ I know that it was [Eb] suicide. _ _ _
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Well, I know that [Bb] I shouldn't have [Cm] done it, _ _ [Ab] no, it just [Eb] wasn't right,
cause they got me backed up to the [Gm] Cottonmouth River [Ab] and I can't [Bb] cross late [Eb] at night.
[Bb] _ Yeah, there's lots of stories told [Eb] about the Cottonmouth River, [Eb]
they tell them time [Bb] and again,
about the men who tried to cross [Bb] that river, [Cm] my [Ab] moonlight never [Bb] were heard [Eb] from again. _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ [Eb] Well, if I [Bb] had my life [Gm] to live over, _ _ [Ab]
I'd have [Bb] gone to work [Eb] that day, _
instead of going into town [Bb] and shooting [G] him down [Ab] for a thing I [Bb] never heard [Eb] him say.
Yeah, [Bb] there's lots of stories told [Eb] about the Cottonmouth River, [Ab] they tell them time [Bb] and again,
_ [Eb] about the men who tried to cross [Bb] that river, [Cm] my moonlight [Ab]
never [Bb] were heard [Eb] from again. _
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Well, I [Bb] just made it through [C] the cane break, [Ab] I got [Bb] one foot [Eb] in the mud,
_ I could hear the hounds a-baying, [Bb] but the snake [Gm] around my ankle's [Ab] telling me my [Bb] running days [Eb] are [Bb] done.
Yeah, there's lots of stories told [Eb] about the Cottonmouth River, [Ab] they tell them time [Bb] and again,
_ _ [Eb] about the men who tried to cross [Bb] that river, [Gm] my moonlight [Ab] never [Bb] were heard [Eb] from again. _ _ _ _
Yeah, [Bb] there's lots of stories told [Eb] about the Cottonmouth River, [Ab] they tell them time and [Bb] again,
_ [Eb] about the men who tried to cross [Bb] that river, [Gm] my [Ab] moonlight never [Bb] were heard [Eb] from again. _ _ _ _ _
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