Jailbirds In The Bighouse chords

CAPO: 1st Fret

INTRO: [G] [Am] [D] [C] [G]

They built a prison by the freeway [Am]
Just to rub it in [D]

It's a gentle reminder
Of the [C]wages of s[G]in


The ones on the inside [Am]
Are being paid their share [D]

There's a hundred stories
For every [C]man in [G]there


There's marks on the cell wall [Am]
There's marks on the men [D]

One counts off the time lost
The other [C]counts 'til the [G]end [C]


[CHORUS]
Jailbirds in the big house [G]
Jailbirds in the sky [Am]

Singing of their innocence
They'll [Em]sing by and b[D]y [C]
Jailbirds in the big house [G]

Jailbirds on a spree
[Am]Some of them could'a looked like you
Some of [Em]them used to look like [D]me [G]

Well, Teddy was a bad kid [Am]
From a bad family tree [D]

He was voted most likely
To com[C]mit a felo[G]ny


And that was just in grade school [Am]
After that he disappeared [D]

They say he moved, or he dropped out
And he's [C]faded with the ye[G]ars


A red hand in the cookie jar [Am]
A foot in potter's field [D]

His face was waiting for a number
His fate was [C]aching to be [G]sealed [C]


[CHORUS]
Jailbirds in the big house [G]
Jailbirds in the sky [Am]

Singing of their innocence
They'll [Em]sing by and b[D]y [C]
Jailbirds in the big house [G]

Jailbirds on a spree
[Am]Some of them could'a looked like you
Some of [Em]them used to look like [D]me [G]

Teddy had a girlfriend
Who g[Am]ave him a place to stay [D]

But he left with her TV set
And a [C]baby on the w[G]ay

And if you should run across him [Am]
He could shorten your life [D]

With the butt of a pistol
Or the [C]edge of a kn[G]ife


He'll sing a song of the rock pile [Am]

Mourning all he had
[D]All the luck in all the world
And [C]most of it was [G]bad [C]

[CHORUS]
Jailbirds in the big house [G]
Jailbirds in the sky [Am]

Singing of their innocence
They'll [Em]sing by and b[D]y [C]
Jailbirds in the big house [G]

Jailbirds on a spree
[Am]Some of them could'a looked like you
Some of [Em]them used to look like [D]me [G]