Tom: G (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!