Jim Croce – The Wall chords

[Verse 1]
CWell, there's lots of strange men in cell-block ten,
                          Gbut the strangest of them all
      F                     Cwas a pal of mine who would spend his time
     Am              C    F               Cjust staring at the wall, staring at the wall.

[Verse 2]
CIn his hand was a note that his gal had wrote,
                               Gwhich proves that crime don't pay
    F                      Cthe very same gal that h'd robbed and stole for,
Am                 C    F                 Cnaming her wedding day, naming her wedding day.

[Chorus]
      F                     CAs he looked at the wall so strong and tall,
  F                C        FI heard him softly curse, "nobody at all
         C                  Am                Chas ever made that wall, but I'm gonna be the first,
F                CI'm gonna be the first."

[Verse 3]
CWell the Warden walked by, said "Son don't try,
                          Gcause I'd hate to see you fall
           F                           Ccause there ain't no doubt we're gonna carry you out
      Am               C            F               Cif you ever touch that wall, if you ever touch that wall."

[Verse 4]
CBut a year has gone by since he made his try;
                 GI can still recall
   F                      Chow hard he tried and the way he died,
       Am               C        F                Cbut he never topped the wall, he never topped the wall.

[Chorus]
F                   CMany a man who has shook this can,
    F               Cand I know a man who tried.
    F                      CThe newspapers called it a jailbreak plan,
    Am                C    F                     Cbut I know it was suicide; I know that it was suicide.


(Song goes to "Cotton Mouth River")

[Verse 1]
       C                         AmWell I know that I shouldn't have done it
  F        G          CI know it just wasn't right
                                   G           AmCause they got me backed up to the Cottonmouth river
      F           G       Cand I can't cross late at night.

[Chorus]
              G                             CYeah, there's lots of stories told about the Cottonmouth river,
F                        G they tell them time and again,
           C                          G        Am about the men who tried to cross that river by moonlight
F           G           C never were heard from again.

[Verse 2]
     C                        AmWell if I had my life to live over,
     F         G         CI'd've gone to work that day
                                G           Aminstead of going into town and shooting him down
       F            G         Cfor a thing I never heard him say.

[Chorus]
              G                              CYeah, there's lots of stories told about the Cottonmouth river,
F                       Gthey tell them time and again,
          C                           G        Amabout the men who tried to cross that river by moonlight
F          G          Cnever were heard from again.

[Verse 3]
      C                            AmWell, I'd just made it through the canebreak
    F        G          Cand got one foot in the mud.
                                       G               AmI can hear the hounds a-bayin' but the snake around my ankle's
        F              G       Ctelling me my running days are done.

[Chorus]
              G                              CYeah, there's lots of stories told about the Cottonmouth river,
F                       Gthey tell them time and again,
          C                            G        Amabout the men who tried to cross that river by moonlight
F          G          Cnever were heard from again.

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