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Prisoners
| <D/A> | <G/D> | D*5fr | G*7fr/D |Dsus4*5fr| E|----X----|----X----|----5----|----7----|----5----| B|---<7>---|--<12>---|----7----|----8----|----8----| G|---<7>---|--<12>---|----7----|----7----|----7----| D|---<7>---|--<12>---|----0----|----0----|----0----| A|----X----|----X----|----0----|----0----|----0----| D|----X----|----X----|----0----|----0----|----0----|
Drop D tuning D D G D D D G D D Josie works a counter at the downtown five and dime, G D Anything at all to help her pass the time. D Her mama keeps the baby and Grandpa rambles on G D About the good times playing in his mind. G D It's a hard life livin' when you're lonely, G D It's a long night sleepin' alone, G D It's a hard time waitin' for tomorrow, G D It's a long, long way home.
Josie spends the evening with the people on the pages
Of the paperback she picked up at the store.
Or sometimes it's the TV, or she'll try to write a letter,
Oh, they don't come too often anymore.
It's a hard life livin' when you're lonely,
It's a long night sleepin' alone,
It's a hard time waitin' for tomorrow,
It's a long, long way home.
<D/A> - <G/D> D*5fr - G*7fr/D D*5fr G*7fr/D I stare at the gray walls before me, D*5fr G*7fr/D I see her face in the dawn. D*5fr G*7fr/D I try to imagine our baby; D*5fr G*7fr/D I wish they would let me go home. D*5fr G*7fr/D I wish they would let me go home. D*5fr G*7fr/D I wish they would let me go home.
It's a hard life livin' when you're lonely,
It's a long night sleepin' alone,
It's a hard time waitin' for tomorrow,
It's a long, long way home.
It's a long, long way home.
Bring me and the other boys home,
G D/F# Em D Bring me and the other boys home.
(Words and music by John Denver, 1972)
Notes: The "<>" angle brackets stand for natural harmonics. In the bridge part, John often played Dsus4 (587000) instead of G/D (787000) in performances from 1974 onward.