The Wall – Jim Croce
Nghệ sĩ: Jim Croce
Hợp Âm Chuẩn
Jim Croce - The Wall (American Recording)
Verse 1→ Phiên khúc
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Well, there's lots of strange men in cell-block ten,
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but the strangest of them all
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was a pal of mine who would spend his time
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just staring at the wall, staring at the wall.
Verse 2→ Phiên khúc
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In his hand was a note that his gal had wrote,
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which proves that crime don't pay
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the very same gal that h'd robbed and stole for,
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naming her wedding day, naming her wedding day.
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As he looked at the wall so strong and tall,
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I heard him softly curse, "nobody at all
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has ever made that wall, but I'm gonna be the first,
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I'm gonna be the first."
Verse 3→ Phiên khúc
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Well the Warden walked by, said "Son don't try,
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cause I'd hate to see you fall
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cause there ain't no doubt we're gonna carry you out
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if you ever touch that wall, if you ever touch that wall."
Verse 4→ Phiên khúc
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But a year has gone by since he made his try;
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I can still recall
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how hard he tried and the way he died,
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but he never topped the wall, he never topped the wall.
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Many a man who has shook this can,
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and I know a man who tried.
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The newspapers called it a jailbreak plan,
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but I know it was suicide; I know that it was suicide.
(Song goes to "Cotton Mouth River")
Verse 1→ Phiên khúc
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Well I know that I shouldn't have done it
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I know it just wasn't right
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Cause they got me backed up to the Cottonmouth river
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and I can't cross late at night.
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Yeah, there's lots of stories told about the Cottonmouth river,
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they tell them time and again,
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about the men who tried to cross that river by moonlight
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never were heard from again.
Verse 2→ Phiên khúc
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Well if I had my life to live over,
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I'd've gone to work that day
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instead of going into town and shooting him down
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for a thing I never heard him say.
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Yeah, there's lots of stories told about the Cottonmouth river,
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they tell them time and again,
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about the men who tried to cross that river by moonlight
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never were heard from again.
Verse 3→ Phiên khúc
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Well, I'd just made it through the canebreak
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and got one foot in the mud.
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I can hear the hounds a-bayin' but the snake around my ankle's
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telling me my running days are done.
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Yeah, there's lots of stories told about the Cottonmouth river,
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they tell them time and again,
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about the men who tried to cross that river by moonlight
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never were heard from again.