** Capo on 1st fret **  
 
 
INTRO: A5 D5 A5 D5  
 
A5 F#5  
Break it to them gently when you tell my mom and dad  
B5 E5 E5  
When you see my baby sister, be as kind as you can  
A5 F#5  
Break it to my grandma, said that boy?s wild and bad  
B5  
Break it to them gently when you tell ?em  
E5 A5  
That I won?t be coming home again  
 

D5 A5  
Cause I?m runnin? with a gun and it isn?t any fun as a fugitive  
D5 A5  
Fightin? for my life and I don?t know if I?ll make it alone  
D5 A5  
Runnin? with a gun and it isn?t any fun as a fugitive  
F#5 A5  
God I wanna go home, lord I wish I was home  
 

D5 A5 D5  
 
A5 F#5  
When you see my lady with the twinkle in her eyes  
B5 E5 E5  
Tell it to her softly and hold her if she cries  
A5 F#5  
Tell her that I love her and I will till the day I die  
B5  
Tell it to her gently when you tell her  
E5 A5  
That I won?t be coming home again  
 

E5 A5  
I got in too deep with strangers  
E5 A5  
Thinkin? they could help me find my way  
D5 A5  
Nobody warned me of the dangers  
F#5 B5 E5  
And it?s always the young and foolish that have to pay  
 

A5 F#5  
So break it to them gently when you tell my mom and dad  
B5 E5 E5  
Thank them for the good years and all the lovin? that I had  
A5 F#5  
Break it to my grandma who said the boy is wild and bad  
B5  
Break it to them gently when you tell them  
E5 A5  
That I won?t be coming home again  
 

D5 A5  
I?m runnin? with a gun and it isn?t any fun as a fugitive  
D5 A5  
Fightin? for my life and I don?t know if I?ll make it alone  
D5 A5  
Runnin? with a gun and it isn?t any fun as a fugitive  
F#5 A5  
Lord I wanna go home, lord I wanna go home  
 

D5  
You gotta break it to them gently  
A5  
Break it to them gently  
D5  
You gotta break it to them gently  
A5  
Gotta really try to roll ?em  
D5  
You gotta break it to them gently  
A5  
Gotta really try to sooth them  
D5  
Gotta really try to sooth them  
A5  
Gotta really try to roll them  
D5  
You gotta roll it to my mother  
A5  
Gotta roll it to my grandma, gotta roll the old lady  
D5  
Roll it to my mother  
A5  
Roll it to my mother and roll the old lady  
D5  
Roll it to my grandma  
A5  
She?s damn near eighty, roll the old lady  
D5  
Roll it to my mother  
A5  
Roll it to my mother, gotta roll the old lady  
D5  
Roll it to my mother  
A5  
My sister and my mother and roll the old lady  
D5  
Roll it to my grandma  
A5  
She?s damn near eighty, roll the old lady...