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There's a lot of strange men in cell block ten, but the strangest of them 
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all,
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was a friend of mine who spent his time starin at the wall. Starin at the 
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wall. As he looked at the wall so strong and tall, you could hear him softly
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curse: Nobody at all ever climbed that wall, but I'm gonna be the first. I'm
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gonna be the first. Well, the warden walked by and said son, don't try, I'd
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hate to see you fall, there is no doubt they'd carry you out if you ever 
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touch that wall. If you ever touch that wall. Well, a year's gone by since he
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made his try, but I can still recall how hard he tried and the way he died, 
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but he never made that wall. He never made that wall. Well, there's never
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been a man who ever shook this can, but I know a man who tried. The
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newspapers called it a jail break plan, but I know it was suicide. I know it
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was suicide.