Please Don't Let Me Out
Johnny Cash
Intro: I’ve been in jail eleven years and parole has just come through the gates will soon swing open wide but I’m not going through. Jail’s the only home I know or care to know about please let me stay where I belong please don’t let me out.! How could I tell those friends of mine they’ve seen the last of me can’t I make you understand I never can be free ? ’Cause that’s a big unfriendly world and I don’t know the route that leads to where I may belong please don’t let me out! I had to learn to get along without a lot of things and I had to learn to live with the loneliness confinement brings. And I learnt to take no mail from home or whatever came about now I’m dug in and I’m happy here please don’t let me out! How could I tell those friends of mine they’ve seen the last of me can’t I make you understand I never can be free ? ’Cause that’s a big unfriendly world and I don’t know the route that leads to where I may belong please don’t let me out! Yes that’s a big unfriendly world and I don’t know the route that leads to where I may belong please don’t let me out!