Tonart: Ab major
Verse 1
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I it's called The Ballad of Johnny Strozier.
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In the red clay Georgia hills
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Among the busted whiskey stills
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With barbed wire stranded high
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Where boys of every age
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spend their life inside a cage
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And they never even learn the reason
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why
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As the twilight meets the dawn
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The iron bar jailhouse doors are drawn
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And the sound of tin cups
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clangin' in the air
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But Johnny Strozier stays behind
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In his dungeon cell confined
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To unconditional 24
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-hour solitaire
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Has anybody got an hour
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Of your precious time to spare?
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Or will you hide your face pretendin'
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That it ain't your place to care
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Are we really all so cruel?
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I guess only time will tell
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For a Georgia boy who's locked up
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In a lonesome alcove cell
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Well, ain't never used a gun
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And he ain't never hurt no one
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As he stares out through the
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cold steel prison bars
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Oh, the life inside his eyes
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Is more empty than the skies
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When they're drained of all the heav
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ens and the stars
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Now he'd like to learn to read out of
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your pretty books and things
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But the warden cannot possibly allow
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For such things to take their place
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In the facts of Johnny's case
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So nobody's even tried to teach him how
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Has anybody got an hour
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of your precious time to spare?
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Or will you hide your face pretendin'
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that it ain't your place to care?
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Are we really all so cruel?
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I guess only time will tell
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Poor Georgia boy who's locked up
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in a lonesome alcove cell
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Sure he's taken from your store
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and yes he's broken through your door
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So you bound him with your shackle
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and your chain
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And you expect this boy
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to pay forever and a day
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So what right, my friend,
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do you have to complain?
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a -struttin' down that
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Who makes his money
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stealin' from the helpless and the blind
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But for a boy whose only crime
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was bein' born without a dime
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It's forty years inside that prison,
maybe even a whole lifetime
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Has anybody got an hour
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of your precious time to spare?
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Well, you hide your face pretendin'
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that it ain't your place to care
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Are we really all so cruel?
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I guess only time will tell
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who's locked up in a lonesome alcove cell
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Thank for you
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