** Capo on 1st fret **  
 
 
INTRO: A D A D  
 
A F#m  
Break it to them gently when you tell my mom and dad  
Bm E4 E  
When you see my baby sister, be as kind as you can  
A F#m  
Break it to my grandma, said that boy?s wild and bad  
Bm  
Break it to them gently when you tell ?em  
E A  
That I won?t be coming home again  
 

D A  
Cause I?m runnin? with a gun and it isn?t any fun as a fugitive  
D A  
Fightin? for my life and I don?t know if I?ll make it alone  
D A  
Runnin? with a gun and it isn?t any fun as a fugitive  
F#m A  
God I wanna go home, lord I wish I was home  
 

D A D  
 
A F#m  
When you see my lady with the twinkle in her eyes  
Bm E4 E  
Tell it to her softly and hold her if she cries  
A F#m  
Tell her that I love her and I will till the day I die  
Bm  
Tell it to her gently when you tell her  
E A  
That I won?t be coming home again  
 

E A  
I got in too deep with strangers  
E A  
Thinkin? they could help me find my way  
D A  
Nobody warned me of the dangers  
F#m Bm E  
And it?s always the young and foolish that have to pay  
 

A F#m  
So break it to them gently when you tell my mom and dad  
Bm E4 E  
Thank them for the good years and all the lovin? that I had  
A F#m  
Break it to my grandma who said the boy is wild and bad  
Bm  
Break it to them gently when you tell them  
E A  
That I won?t be coming home again  
 

D A  
I?m runnin? with a gun and it isn?t any fun as a fugitive  
D A  
Fightin? for my life and I don?t know if I?ll make it alone  
D A  
Runnin? with a gun and it isn?t any fun as a fugitive  
F#m A  
Lord I wanna go home, lord I wanna go home  
 

D  
You gotta break it to them gently  
A  
Break it to them gently  
D  
You gotta break it to them gently  
A  
Gotta really try to roll ?em  
D  
You gotta break it to them gently  
A  
Gotta really try to sooth them  
D  
Gotta really try to sooth them  
A  
Gotta really try to roll them  
D  
You gotta roll it to my mother  
A  
Gotta roll it to my grandma, gotta roll the old lady  
D  
Roll it to my mother  
A  
Roll it to my mother and roll the old lady  
D  
Roll it to my grandma  
A  
She?s damn near eighty, roll the old lady  
D  
Roll it to my mother  
A  
Roll it to my mother, gotta roll the old lady  
D  
Roll it to my mother  
A  
My sister and my mother and roll the old lady  
D  
Roll it to my grandma  
A  
She?s damn near eighty, roll the old lady...