Orleans Parish Prison
Use a capo on the first fret, or don't. Cash did both.
[Verse 1]
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Well, have you seen my dark-haired girl?
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She was set on her love to a hungry world
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They got her clothes and the money she took
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And they wrote her name in the prison book
[Chorus]
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Orleans Parish Prison won't you free my dark-haired girl?
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She's tired and cold and you got the gold
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She took from a hungry world
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Orleans Parish Prison won't you free my dark-haired girl?
[Verse 2]
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Well, have you seen my green-eyed son?
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He shot a man down with a sawed off gun
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And they found him down by the Pontchartrain
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Where they cuffed his hands with a big iron chain
[Chorus]
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Orleans Parish Prison won't you free my green-eyed son?
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I heard him say as they led him away
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Sorry for what he's done
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Orleans Parish Prison won't you free my green-eyed son?
[Verse 3]
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Well, have you missed my brother man?
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He took a little money with a gun in his hand
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Now the kids are hungry and the wife ain't well
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And the daddy's locked up in a prison cell
[Chorus]
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Orleans Parish Prison won't you free my brother man?
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I know it's sad but he ain't bad
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He's doing the best he can
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Orleans Parish Prison won't you free my brother man?
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Orleans Parish Prison i miss my green-eyed son
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I love my dark-haired girl
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I need my brother man
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Orleans Parish Prison i wish you'd free them if you can