| 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
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| 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 |