A Prison Without Walls Chords
by Eddy Arnold
A Prison Without Walls by Eddy Arnold is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, F, G7, C7 and D7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
C F C
I don't need chains or iron bars to tell me I'm not free
G7 C G7
I'm in a prison without walls
C F C
I'm living in the memory of a love that used to be
G7 C C7
Here in a prison without any walls
F C G7 C
I come and go but still I know I'll never break a-way
D7 G7
For deep inside my heart is tied to dreams of yesterday
C F C
Till you bring back your love sweetheart there's no escape of me
G7 C
I'm in a prison without any walls
F C
You closed a door with your goodbye that tells me night and day
G7 C G7
I'm in a prison without any walls
C F C
Could loving you be such a crime that I should have to stay
G7 C C7
Here in a prison without any walls
F C G7 C
I tell myself I won't be blue I'll find another love
D7 G7
But when I look at someone else it's you I'm thinking of
C F C
Come back sweetheart and break these ties I can't go on this way
G7 C
I'm in a prison without any walls