Please Don't Let Me Out Chords
by Johnny Cash
Please Don't Let Me Out by Johnny Cash is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords C, G, D, G7 and D7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: C G G D G
G C G
I've been in jail eleven years and parole has just come through,
D
the gates will soon swing open wide but I'm not going through.
C G
Jail's the only home I know or care to know about,
D G G7
please let me stay where I belong, please don't let me out.!
C G
How could I tell those friends of mine they've seen the last of me,
D
can't I make you understand I never can be free ?
C G
'Cause that's a big unfriendly world and I don't know the route
D G
that leads to where I may belong, please don't let me out!
C G G D G
G C G
I had to learn to get along without a lot of things,
D
and I had to learn to live with the loneliness confinement brings.
C G
And I learnt to take no mail from home or whatever came about,
D G G7
now I'm dug in and I'm happy here, please don't let me out!
C G
How could I tell those friends of mine they've seen the last of me,
D
can't I make you understand I never can be free ?
C G
'Cause that's a big unfriendly world and I don't know the route
D G G7
that leads to where I may belong, please don't let me out!
C G
Yes, that's a big unfriendly world and I don't know the route
D D7 G
that leads to where I may belong, please don't let me out!
C G G D G