Tom: E5

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Seems they're letting him out next year
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He's behaving himself I hear
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Governor Conway says it will be fine
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Just as long as he can tow the line.
            B5
So it's the same old story
       A5
But it says here "Mum you're not to worry,
                                E(add2)
'Cos some you lose and some you lose."


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At this party he was on his own,
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All he did was say he'd take her home
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But it seems he didn't go straight there
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'Twas on the porch she told him , Put your hand there
              B5                   A5
Yes it's that same old story, they told her mum she's not to worry
   A5               D5          B5              E5 E5 E5
If what she says is so, they'll never let him go.


E5         F#5                 B5           E5
Never a word could be heard, not even the sound of a bird
           F#5        B5
Singing it over again,    telling the same old story
A5           B5              E5                   A5
Never the same as before, see the summer going out by the door.
                    B5                   E5                A5 A5
And now that you've paid for those lies, get another dis - guise.


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It's twenty years now since our kid came free
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Oh I remember August '53
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But it wasn't quite like they said
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With that behind you you can't plan ahead.
              B5
So it's that same old story
     A5
They say you're free, so don't worry
A5                   D5
What they said's not so
     B5             E5
They never let you go!


E5         F#5                 B5           E5
Never a word could be heard, not even the sound of a bird
           F#5        B5
Singing it over again,    telling the same old story
A5           B5              E5                   A5
Never the same as before, see the summer going out by the door.
                    B5                   E5                A5 A5
And now that you've paid for those lies, get another dis - guise.
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